

You do not need licensing for business use! You only need licensing to continue using Oracle's JDK after the LTS window is up. Is Java 10 supposed to be back-wards compatible or do you have to test every single (web) application? Perhaps at that point simply demand that the application vendor 'upgrade their shit'? We also do not have a complete overview of how many users/computers require Java per today.Ĭan we just move to a new version instead that does not cost money? Like does this not apply to Java 10? Our business does not do any java development, we only install the JRE for clients/users that need it to run an application (mostly web based). So I'm guessing this also then includes the JRE? Will we also be forced to pay for a license to get JRE 8 updates? January 2019 Java SE 8 on the desktop won’t be updated any more … unless you buy a sub.

So, question one, this is actually just the Java JRE, right? It's not really Java SE? Or is this actually "Java SE for desktops"?

However the folder name on the target denotes 'jre', i.e: C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_171 Now after install it doesn't actually say JRE anywhere either in Programs and Features or in the Control Panel appwiz 'Java'. So basically you get this from typing in "download java" in Google and ending up at: IT) deploy Java to our clients I've always assumed it's simply the JRE, Java Runtime Envionrment, we are distributing.

JRE = Java Runtime Environment (users need this, this is every computer user today) JDK = Java Development Kit (developers need this, this is you if you code in Java) To begin I want to make sure we're talking about the right version of Java and I might need to clarify some possible misconceptions I have. Source article: Java moving to subscription based model.
