Oracle JDK8 End of life and continued use without update

[Md. Sarowar Alam]

Thanks for your kind reply.

Yes I'm aware that sooner or later we have to move to OpenJDK.
But we have some dependency on com.sun.* in some old libraries and it's
kind of hard to change/upgrade those right now. So can't move to OpenJDK
because of these. :(
It's better for us if we can continue using OracleJDK8 without
updates/support (i.e. without buying subscription) while we adapt to
OpenJDK step by step.

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Best Regards,

*Md. Sarowar Alam*




On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 2:47 AM Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 03:26, Md. Sarowar Alam <sarowar.cse at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> > My apologies if this is not the correct mailing list.
> >
> > I'am(me or my company) using Oracle JDK8 for some web services.
> > As public support for JDK8 is ending on January, 2019, is it possible
> > continue using Oracle JDK8 without further update for commercial
> purposes?
> > Or does a user need to subscribe to new model even though that user
> doesn't
> > want to update?
> > ----------------
> > Best Regards,
> > *Md. Sarowar Alam*
>
> I would suggest switching to OpenJDK 8 builds to continue receiving
> security
> updates. Builds may be included as part of your operating system (e.g. on
> most GNU/Linux distributions) or you can look at downloading a build
> from a provider such as AdoptOpenJDK (
> https://adoptopenjdk.net/releases.html)
>
> Hope that helps,
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> Andrew :)
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