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Oracle Java SE

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Oracle Java SE
Score 8.4 out of 10
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Oracle Java SE is a programming language and gives customers enterprise features that minimize the costs of deployment and maintenance of their Java-based IT environment.N/A
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Oracle Java SE
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Oracle Java SE
Considered Both Products
Oracle Java SE
Verified User
Engineer
Chose Oracle Java SE
Java is the backbone of Scala. Lots of the improvements of the newer version of Java have been based on the improvements Scala introduced (functional programming features, among others). In this way Java and Scala are very symbiotic.
Verified User
Engineer
Chose Oracle Java SE
Java is highly more performant and with a very wide range of opensource libraries at hand, there is not much that you "cannot do" as long as you "do it right". Interpreted nature of Python doesn't let you do proper multicore/multithread operations, you could even say that …
Verified User
Team Lead
Chose Oracle Java SE
Code readability is greater in [Oracle Java SE]. Code refactor can be achieved in [Oracle Java SE], design patterns are used across the libraries and in use of it as well.
Verified User
Employee
Chose Oracle Java SE
We also use C++ and Python in our application. We are working to migrate to a web-based application, but continue to invest in our Java client.
Verified User
Professional
Chose Oracle Java SE
Both platforms provide support for common programming languages such as PHP, Ruby, and Python. Java developers can also use languages such as Java, JavaScript, Clojure, Groovy, and Scala while .NET developers can code in C#, F#, VB.NET, C++, and .NET. The two platforms also …
Trang Nguyen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Trang Nguyen
Senior Test Engineer
Chose Oracle Java SE
We choose Java as our system has multiple sub-applications that have different purposes and architecture including back-end applications, front-end UI, front-end Rest API, and Selenium Automation tests. They are deployed in Windows and Linux, communicate with each other using …
Verified User
Engineer
Chose Oracle Java SE
We had to stick with Java SE due to some of our other services being already written in Java. For the past couple months, we have been experimenting with Python and comparing its level of security and performance. From our experience, Python has fewer security capabilities, but …
Verified User
Technician
Chose Oracle Java SE
I like the platform independency.
Balázs Kiss | TrustRadius Reviewer
Balázs Kiss
Software Developer
Chose Oracle Java SE
I wanted to write Python, NodeJS, PHP... but it's hard to compare all the different fruits in the basket. Java is good for what it was made for, and much more nowadays. Java was and I suspect, will be a strong candidate for any backend project, and it's one of the most popular …
Verified User
Director
Chose Oracle Java SE
Java vs Scala:
  • Less "cool."
  • More verbose.
Richard Stanley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Richard Stanley
Director of Digital Software Development
Chose Oracle Java SE
Java out of the box is lower cost traditionally. As time has evolved, c# is catching up.
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Ram Nair
Director
Chose Oracle Java SE
Oracle's Java is a uniform platform. It is widely used and universally accepted and is the defacto language. The majority of the industries from Banking, retail, healthcare, hardware, software, military, defense, and commercial, to the fashion industry use this language for …
Terra Lo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Terra Lo
Computer Scientist
Chose Oracle Java SE
We haven't really used any other products like Java. We have used python and C++ for other projects. Java is much simpler to use than C++, but probably not as simple as Python. Then again, Python is meant to be a scripting language, so when comparing to C++, Java is definitely …
Chose Oracle Java SE
Many other languages could be used for initial programming. However, simplicity of concepts, static type system and available tool support in combination made Java come out top for us. Especially Python has become very popular recently. I think this is a step backwards, due to …
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Alex Jing
Software Engineer
Chose Oracle Java SE
Azul provides comparable services to Oracle Java SE. Compared to Oracle Java SE, support from Azul is more responsive and reachable. The downside is that the customer base of Azul system is much smaller compared to Oracle, so online resources are a little hard to search. But it …
Verified User
Former Employee
Chose Oracle Java SE
Basically, unless you use Electron with really flimsy documentation, Java is the better cross-platform tool to use.
Verified User
Engineer
Chose Oracle Java SE
There are several alternative vendors of Java. They are almost all based on OpenJDK, so they are generally very similar. Levels of support vary, but they are more than worthy of consideration.
Verified User
Employee
Chose Oracle Java SE
I do not see the languages that I meant to add in the list. These are Python, R, C, C++, Perl, Jython and Javascript. I have experience in each of these and each has its pros and cons. I like R and Python for scientific analysis. C and C++ have good support for communicating …
Chose Oracle Java SE
ASP.NET and Java both live in a similar solution space, however, Java tends to be the better option due to the larger amount of available resources for it. Node is an interesting tool. It is in a similar space as Java, but more focused on front-end web application development. …
Jean Georges Perrin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jean Georges Perrin
Senior Architect
Chose Oracle Java SE
Did not do a product comparison, but Oracle licensing may force some of my customers to get to other variations.
Verified User
Engineer
Chose Oracle Java SE
Oracle is free to use and has many open source frameworks, tools and IDE's around it. That was the primary reason to choose Java SE.
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User Ratings
Oracle Java SE
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(32 ratings)
Usability
7.4
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(19 ratings)
User Testimonials
Oracle Java SE
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle
Oracle Java SE is well suited to long-running applications (e.g. servers). Java Swing (UI toolkit) is now rather outdated, lacking support for modern UI features. JavaFX, the potential replacement for Swing, has now been separated out of Java core. Ideally, there would be a path to migrate a large application incrementally from Swing to JavaFX, but due to different threading models and other aspects, it is difficult. At this point, it is probably better to use an embedded web browser (e.g. JxBrowser) to provide a modern UI in HTML/Javascript and keep just the business logic in Java.
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Anonymous
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Pros
Oracle
  • Plenty support built into the tool and IDE like Maven, Ant, Eclipse, IntelliJ.
  • Strong object-orientation language and clear project structure.
  • Wrapper underlines hardware and memory management so the developers can focus on business and implementation.
  • It offers a huge library and framework support from third-parties and the community.
Trang Nguyen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Trang Nguyen
Senior Test Engineer
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Cons
Oracle
  • Commercial Licensing in 2019. Oracle will charge commercial organizations using Java SE for upgrading to the latest bug fixes and updates. Organizations will now need to either limit their implementation of Java SE or may need to drop it altogether.
  • Slow Performance. Due to the all of the abstraction of the JVM, Java SE programs take much more resources to compile and run compared to Python.
  • Poor UI appearance on all of the major GUI libraries (Swing, SWT, etc.). Through Android Studio, it is easy to get a native look/feel for Java apps, but when it comes to desktops, the UI is far from acceptable (does not mimic the native OS's look/feel at all).
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Anonymous
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Usability
Oracle
The language is fluent and has good support from a number of open source and commercial IDEs. Language features are added every 6 months, although long-term service releases are only available every 3 years. It would be nice if some of the older APIs were depreciated with more pressure to move to the new replacement APIs (e.g. File vs. Path), but transitions to new features are generally well implemented.
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Anonymous
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Support Rating
Oracle
Java is such a mature product at this point that there is little support from the vendor that is needed. Various sources on the internet, and especially StackOverflow, provide a wealth of knowledge and advice. Areas that may benefit from support is when dealing with complex multithreading issues and security libraries.
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Anonymous
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Alternatives Considered
Oracle
Chose to go with Java instead of Python or C++ due to the expertise on the ground with the technology, for its ease of integration with our heterogeneous setup of production servers, and for the third party library support which we've found was able to address some challenging aspects of our business problem.
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Anonymous
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Return on Investment
Oracle
  • The different versions make it harder to work with other companies where some use newer versions while some use older versions, costing time to make them compatible.
  • Licenses are getting to be costly, forcing us to consider OpenJDK as an alternative.
  • New features take time to learn. When someone starts using them, everyone has to take time to learn.
Terra Lo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Terra Lo
Computer Scientist
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