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It looks like Oracle will only provide binary releases for the LTS versions (after the regular 6 month release window) to paying customers: https://medium.com/codefx-weekly/no-free-java-lts-version-b8....

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After going back and looking at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html I noticed that it doesn't conflict with what you posted above. It specifically doesn't call out model for Java 11...

This may be nail in Java's coffin if this plays out as implied.

This is one of the reasons why we created the build farm and will be producing LTS supported builds for OpenJDK. It will be a default place that people can go to get a professionally tested, TSK compliant OpenJDK binary. They can also still choose to go to a vendor for commercial support.

You mean the new year-based versioning system? I think it's not that bad (until they decide to introduce breaking changes). Indeed, Oracle giving Java EE away and switching to enterprise-hostile release cycle after watching peacefully at major browsers retiring Java applets support suggests it has lost interest in Java (but the trademark and, perhaps, some patents) but I still believe the JVM platform is still very far from its coffin as it provides great base for amazing aspiring languages like Scala and as Java itself keeps its pretty secure place among the most widely used languages.

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