There are Windows and MacOS builds of the OpenJDK alongside the Linux one at http://jdk.java.net/10/. What am I missing that makes for a dire situation on Windows?
Tim On Fri, Sep 14, 2018, 5:20 AM Jiri Daněk <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 11:36 AM Vadhiraj <[email protected] > > > wrote: > > > As per below link JAVA will b e licensed starting from 2019. Will > > ActiveMQ > > remove dependancy on JAVA or ACtivemq will buy license for JAVA or > > ActiveMQ > > user should buy license > > > > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.html > > > Oracle is not the only Java vendor in the world. Java is bigger than one > company and even if Oracle disappeared tomorrow, there will be demand and > supply of Java maintenance releases from the other vendors. > > OpenJDK is free and will be free. That means that Linux users will not be > affected (distribution maintainers will build OpenJDK packages and ship > them in the distro). For example, CentOS/RHEL will offer LTS support for > OpenJDK, on par with what we saw with JDK 6/8, on the order of 6 years > after initial release. > > On Windows and MacOS, unless you can/want to depend on personal-use > OracleJDK, the situation is somewhat more dire. I am personally hoping that > the Red Hat Windows build of OpenJDK > https://developers.redhat.com/products/openjdk/download/ may become freely > available (without the development-only condition, without support) and > fill the space. Then there is https://adoptopenjdk.net build, and > https://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu/. Not sure about IBM Java, what the > terms and conditions are there. > -- > Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards > Jiri Daněk >
