On 12/15/21 12:57 AM, Bernd Fehling wrote:
To get away from the Oracle License by switching from Java 8 to
OpenJDK 8, do you have any observations or measurements?
What I have seen says that OpenJDK 8 is solid. In the last few years, I
have not had first-hand access to large-scale Solr installs. I am
running one Solr install for myself, but it is extremely small. OpenJDK
has worked well for that install. It's running Solr 8.11.0, with
OpenJDK 11. I do use OpenjDK 8 to build Solr, and that does work
without problems. It's been a while since I have run the test suite,
but that also works with OpenJDK 8.
Prior to Oracle changing the license for their implementation of Java, I
would have recommended Oracle Java first, and OpenJDK second. Since the
license change, most uses of Oracle Java require paying Oracle, so now I
recommend OpenJDK. Bonus to that -- OpenJDK packages are available in
most Linux distributions from distro repositories.
I am in the process of downloading 6.6.6 so I can do some testing.
Transfer speed from archive.apache.org is terrible, I should be done
with the download in about 15 minutes.
Thanks,
Shawn
