
- PACKAGE OPENJDK 7 JDK HAS NO INSTALLATION CANDIDATE UPDATE
- PACKAGE OPENJDK 7 JDK HAS NO INSTALLATION CANDIDATE FULL
I realize that Oracle's answer is "and that's when you should pay us for support", but for anyone who wants to continue to use Java (or the JDK) in the "free" way its been historically, it's so much safer form a business perspective to use a JDK provider that has better support commitments to their free versions.

Oracle also hasn't really been giving the time for these changes to be adopted either when the support for even LTS JDK builds is dropped at the same time the next stable major version is released. If you provide software to customers to deploy in their own environments without direct control over updates, or if you have maintenance mode line of business software that you just want to keep patched this becomes a much bigger burden.
PACKAGE OPENJDK 7 JDK HAS NO INSTALLATION CANDIDATE FULL
That's all well and good for software developed in house by a full time development team that gets deployed to a single known environment, but that's only one way that the JDK gets used. That might be seen as "OpenJDK providing the binaries", but it is actually not: it links to one of the distribution providers. What gets people confused is linking to Oracle distribution (either at, or Oracle site). There is also a security collaboration between many companies (OpenJDK Vulnerability Group), which drops its deliverables in relevant source trees.Īt one point, I tried to draw this map to show the bird's eye view on the landscape: - you can find AdoptOpenJDK there. Oracle does not participate in OpenJDK 8u/11u directly, opting to maintain their separate tree, from which they build Oracle JDK 8u/11u available under the commercial license. Most of the actual backport work is done by the OpenJDK participants, notably people from Red Hat (like me), SAP, Amazon, Azul and others. AdoptOpenJDK provides one of those distributions.
PACKAGE OPENJDK 7 JDK HAS NO INSTALLATION CANDIDATE UPDATE
There are many OpenJDK(-based) distributions out there, mostly built from the OpenJDK Update Releases sources.
