On Monday 17 February 2014 04:12 AM, Edward M wrote: > On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 14:14:24 +0530 > Nilesh Govindrajan <m...@nileshgr.com> wrote: > >> rvices to customers, so compatibility is >> definitely a concern. I'm not exactly sure what the differences are >> between Oracle JDK & OpenJDK; the differences I found so far on Google >> are old and make sense only for Java 6. > > Hello, > > To my understanding, Oracle JDK binary is created from the source code > released from the OpenJDK project with some Oracle's own propriety > code. The other difference is Oracle's JDK binary is released under > Oracle Technology Network Developer License Terms for JAVA EE SDK,JDK > where as OpenJDK code is under GPL + linking exceptions. > > More info at: > > https://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/java_7_questions_answers > > Best regards > ED >
So it would be correct to say that for Java EE applications, icedtea would be enough? As per the link you gave me, it says some graphical components & fonts are extra, none of which are used in case of web applications.