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by pdpi 2974 days ago
For the Java 5 -> Java 6 transition, Java 5 was publicly updated for 3 years after Java 6 was released. 6->7 saw 6 supported for 21 more months, 7->8 was a rather short 13 months.

For 8->9, this announcement means it'll be 17 months of support after Java 8 is no longer current, which is in perfectly line with what they've been doing.
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LudoA 2974 days ago
Except Java 9 is already no longer supported. The next viable Java version after Java 8 is Java 11, which is an LTS version. Java 11 will come out around September this year.

So in reality, this means organizations have a couple months to migrate everything from Java 8 to Java 11. Laughable.

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mcroft 2974 days ago
Also, once you get to Java 11, you need to either pay for the LTS version or be prepared to update Java every 6 months with no overlap.

Because of the increased release cadence, there is also no guarantee that there won't be breaking changes between LTS versions. (Java 9 already became the first Java release ever to actually remove deprecated classes, although in a very minor way).

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carlos22 2974 days ago
Older Eclipse based software does not work with Java 9.
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