yeah well I don't think Oracle is treating Java the way Google is treating Go and I am not a big fan of Go mainly because I understand the JVM is far more robust than anything that is out there.
"Oracle just doesn't understand open source" These are the words from James Gosling himself I do think its better to stay away from Oracle as we never know when they would switch open source to closed source. Given their history of practices their statements are not credible. I am pretty sure the community would take care of OpenJDK. On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 2:04 AM, Brice Dutheil <brice.duth...@gmail.com> wrote: > The problem described in this article is different than what you have on > your servers and I’ll add this article should be reaad with caution, as The > Register is known for sensationalism. The article itself has no substantial > proof or enough details. In my opinion this article is clickbait. > > Anyway there’s several point to think of instead of just swicthing to > OpenJDK : > > - > > There is technical differences between Oracle JDK and openjdk. Where > there’s licensing issues some libraries are closed source in Hotspot like > font, rasterizer or cryptography and OpenJDK use open source alternatives > which leads to different bugs or performance. I believe they also have > minor differences in the hotspot code to plug in stuff like Java Mission > Control or Flight Recorder or hotpost specific options. > Also I believe that Oracle JDK is more tested or more up to date than > OpenJDK. > > So while OpenJDK is functionnaly the same as Oracle JDK it may not > have the same performance or the same bugs or the same security fixes. > (Unless are your ready to test that with your production servers and your > production data). > > I don’t know if datastax have released the details of their > configuration when they test Cassandra. > - > > There’s also a question of support. OpeJDK is for the community. > Oracle can offer support but maybe only for Oracle JDK. > > Twitter uses OpenJDK, but they have their own JVM support team. Not > sure everyone can afford that. > > As a side note I’ll add that Oracle is paying talented engineers to work > on the JVM to make it great. > > Cheers, > > > -- Brice > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 6:55 AM, Kant Kodali <k...@peernova.com> wrote: > >> Looking at this http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/16/oracle_targets_ >> java_users_non_compliance/?mt=1481919461669 I don't know why Cassandra >> recommends Oracle JVM? >> >> JVM is a great piece of software but I would like to stay away from >> Oracle as much as possible. Oracle is just horrible the way they are >> dealing with Java in General. >> >> >> >
