Review of Oracle Java SE Subscription
We have a large product with close to 100 applications that are running on Java (JEE). We are using Java SE Subscription to get our …
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What is Oracle Java SE Subscription?
Oracle Java SE Subscription combines license and support into a subscription to enable users to manage Java SE installations, updates and upgrades across the enterprise. The former Java SE Advanced, Java SE Advanced Desktop, and Java SE Suite products have…
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Oracle Java SE Subscription
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What is Oracle Java SE Subscription?
Oracle states that Java is the most widely used software development language and platform, and that the world’s largest enterprises rely on this robust, trusted technology to run mission critical applications with unparalleled stability at scale. They further state that through Oracle’s stewardship and ecosystem collaboration, Java will continue to drive modern application architectures and innovation trends. Backed by Oracle, Java offers a trusted platform for the world’s largest enterprises.
Oracle Java SE Subscription offers enterprise-grade support for developers and enterprise customers alike, from the team that powers innovation in the JDK, delivering the vast majority of the contributions. It provides license and support for desktops and servers, to enable customers to manage Java SE installations, updates and upgrades across their enterprise. Oracle Java SE Subscription customers receive all-hours access to My Oracle Support, enterprise monitoring, management, and deployment features, early access to updates and bug fixes, and more.
Oracle Java SE Subscription offers enterprise-grade support for developers and enterprise customers alike, from the team that powers innovation in the JDK, delivering the vast majority of the contributions. It provides license and support for desktops and servers, to enable customers to manage Java SE installations, updates and upgrades across their enterprise. Oracle Java SE Subscription customers receive all-hours access to My Oracle Support, enterprise monitoring, management, and deployment features, early access to updates and bug fixes, and more.
The former Java SE Advanced, Java SE Advanced Desktop, and Java SE Suite products have transitioned to Java SE Subscription. For more information visit http://oracle.com/java
Oracle Java SE Subscription Features
- Supported: Flexibility on when and what to upgrade
- Supported: Support from the stewards of Java
- Supported: Advance management capabilities
Oracle Java SE Subscription Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Global support: North America, EMEA, LAD, JAPAC |
| Supported Languages | English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean |
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Oracle Java SE Subscription combines license and support into a subscription to enable users to manage Java SE installations, updates and upgrades across the enterprise. The former Java SE Advanced, Java SE Advanced Desktop, and Java SE Suite products have transitioned to a Java SE Subscriptions. Beyond the unlicensed version, purchasers of Oracle Java SE Subscription receive all-hours access to My Oracle Support, enterprise monitoring, management, and deployment features, and early access to updates and bug fixes.
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September 20, 2022
Review of Oracle Java SE Subscription
We have a large product with close to 100 applications that are running on Java (JEE). We are using Java SE Subscription to get our questions and queries answered about a feature or a flag. And to get support with regards to various dumps or crashes that we see. It is good to have access to a ready knowledge base and get quick feedback on problems we are seeing.
- Access to knowledge base
- Quick response to critical issues
- Help in troubleshooting difficult issues
- Sometimes required data is not available (for example dump is not available due to lack of disk space) and difficult to obtain after the issue has occurred. This makes it difficult to find out the root cause of issues.
January 03, 2022
Review of Oracle Java SE Subscription
I am using it for my programming tool as a web developer. This is [a] very easy-to-use tool. Its performance and interface [are] also very good.
- Very easy to use
- Documentation is very good
- Customer support is very nice
- It is quite expensive
- Installation is not very easy
December 29, 2021
Powerful Subscription Service
As we know that JAVA is one of the famous programming languages that is widely used across the globe as a development platform as well. As a part of it, Oracle Java SE Subscription provides complete support by providing the monthly license at a very low cost. Hence it is widely used across the development team in our organization. Also, it provides world-class support and it is very secure.
- Oracle Security.
- Websites can be created very easily.
- Deployments can be easily managed.
- Great technical support
- Sometimes it's slow.
- There is no backup facilities to restore.
- Performance impacts.
December 12, 2021
Powerful Subscription Service
Oracle Java SE Subscription has changed the way that our organization does programming since it connects to multiple Java Applications. This is basically a subscription service on a monthly basis at a very low cost that allows building of multiple applications as well in Java language, hence why it is widely used by our organization. The implementation is quite easy and is more convenient as compared to Java SE Advanced Version.
- Maintenance of web applications become quite easy.
- Websites can be created very easily.
- Easy deployment.
- Support is great.
- GUI can be improved.
- Still cost is a little bit high.
- Updates are quite frequent.
December 03, 2021
Most Powerful Programming Platform
This is the main programming platform that we depend on in web development. It has the most reliable coding tools that make it easy for the user to develop [an] advanced website based on the given project. It has security features that enhance security for any data that runs across all our working platform networks.
- Creation of powerful websites
- Provision of security to data
- I have not experienced any room for improvement.
- I have not observed any performance failure from this platform.
November 10, 2021
Managing Java SE the easy way
As an educational institution, we have thousands of machines that need to be loaded with a variety of different software and systems for our students to be able to achieve the goals set by the university. I am based in a School of Computing and we utilize Java as one of our core programming languages, as such we needed to find a cost-effective way of licensing Java across all of these machines. This is why we chose to use the Java SE subscription as it simplifies the distribution of licenses, is cheaper, and covers cloud functionality which has been significantly useful with the transition to more cloud-based services.
- Cost effective options for smaller organizations.
- Great automated security and patching options.
- Cross-platform support (Desktop, Cloud etc.).
- Some interesting ML options.
- Easy to use developer environment.
- User based subscription could be replaced with an enterprise level option.
- Core features not always updated as quickly as the free alternative Java SDK.
- No backup facility.
October 28, 2021
Oracle Java SE Subscription - a reliable and still growing all purpose programming language
Oracle Java SE is used as our primary programming language for any backend application that needs to be high performance. With its simple syntax, the JVM, and extensive community support Oracle Java SE Subscription speeds up deployment and feature delivery. Though the JVM generally handles memory management, it does provide knobs to adjust garbage collection as needed to further tune the applications to limit GC pauses for low latency applications. In the past few years, the Oracle Java SE Subscription has sped up the iterative development of Oracle Java SE, leading to many modern and welcome language features so that Java does not fall behind.
- Object oriented programming.
- Memory management.
- Concurrent programming.
- Multi-platform support.
- Lots of libraries and APIs.
- Limited manual memory management.
- Older language that is verbose compared to other modern languages.
October 21, 2021
Great insurance to protect your Java investment
We use Oracle Java SE Subscription almost exclusively for all our backend services and developments. Being such an important component of our technology stack, the Oracle Java SE Subscription ensures all our Java-based applications are well supported, especially the ones running older versions of Java, by continuously releasing bug fixes and security patches. This really helps us feel secure with our investment in Java technology.
- Great technical support, especially for the Long-Term-Supported (LTS) versions.
- Security patches and updates.
- Cost is still a bit high.
October 20, 2021
Best for managing and building applications
Oracle Java SE Subscription service is widely used across our organization to implement Java Applications. It is a monthly license and the support solution and the price of the product provided is very good. It basically provides us the tools to better understand the utilization of the resources of the system along with the performance of the application. It also allows to configure the settings of the application and performs the optimizations at the run time.
- Low Cost.
- Support is great.
- Implementation is quite easy.
- Maintenance of web applications is easy.
- Updates are stress free.
- No support for mobile applications.
- Subscription cost can be reduced.
- It lacks the backup facility.
September 30, 2021
Oracle Java SE Subscription - a refreshing solution to manage your enterprise's Java deployments
Oracle Java SE Subscription is the subscription service used by our organization to be able to implement Java SE applications. These applications are built and deployed using the Java Development Kit via the Java Virtual Machine, and fall under the categories of web-based enterprise applications and desktop applications. Java SE Subscription allows our organization to build Java applications that are cross-platform compatible and follow enterprise application development standards.
- Cross platform support.
- Comprehensive platform SDK.
- Extensive library ecosystem.
- Support for modern, scalable applications.
- Easy-to-manage deployment patterns.
- Backwards compatibility could be better.
- Core language features are added slowly.
- Runtime introspection is complicated.
September 02, 2021
Programming and workforce management platform
This platform is used across our organization to program and build API. The product offers great support to our programming team in customizing our websites to fit the entire organization's needs. Configuration of the system interface gives us the power to plan and execute duties that lead to high production.
- Creating effective environment for programming.
- Giving support to designing and optimization teams.
- The current features are very effective.
- I have not experienced any challenge that can lead to poor performance.
August 07, 2021
Best programming and customer service tool
It is used by the website design and management team. It has a great customer support team that comes in handy when there is a technical problem. It is very effective in programming most of the tools that we use in our organization to run daily activities. Cloud hosting tools enable us to fix and come up with solutions for data storage.
- Programming and running websites.
- Maintaining web applications.
- The current features are effective and easy to learn how they work.
Oracle Java SE Subscription is [a] must-have application for our organization as we have to build different applications and software using Oracle platforms. We are using Oracle Java SE Subscriptions to automatically maintain and manage updates and security patches of our all systems for Java and all other Oracle products. It has solved our problems of manually updating the system patches for each user and it helps us to keep our all machines updated as per industry requirements through push updates. We have implemented Java SE Subscription on all the systems of the organizations.
- Automatic Oracle updates and security patches.
- Machine learning capability to push updates as per industry requirements.
- Frequent updates from Oracle to maintain security in-time.
- No proper enterprise pricing system and we have to get user based subscriptions.
April 28, 2021
Oracle Java SE Subscription--much better than free Java
Apart from the typical Java, Oracle Java SE Subscription provides additional features, such as full support from Oracle, and helps with upgrades and installation processes across multiple enterprise customers. It entitles subscribers to use GraalVM to get high performance. The support helps the dev team to be more agile and resolve issues promptly.
- Use GraalVM for optimization
- Access to Oracle tech support
- Better access to Java communities and forums
- A better mechanism to reach out to customer support
- More documentation on GraalVM
- Increased release cadence for bugs
We have used Oracle Java SE Subscription to provide assurance for our critical Java SE-based applications. The subscription protects our investment in these products by providing enterprise-level patch management and support, should the need arise. This allows us to confidently pursue internal and external java development opportunities knowing that there is some insurance in our investment.
- Patch management
- Enterprise-level support
- Reasonable pricing model
- Less added benefit for current-version Java users, as public updates are still available
April 12, 2021
Oracle Java SE Subscription - Go For it!
Our project has enrolled for Oracle Java SE Subscription in our organization catering for [a] Danish Client. All our Java SE applications are now being effectively and efficiently managed and supported by Java SE Subscription related to installations, timely updates and patches for upgradation. The Java SE subscription is budget friendly as well.
- Timely updates and patches installation
- Cost Effective and Budget Friendly
- No more Additional Resource allocation required for managing Java SE Applications
- Renewal is needed once subscription expires as it becomes difficult to manage it by our in house team.
- Limited information shared to us related to security patches being installed
April 12, 2021
Complete cross-platform product
We use Oracle Java SE Subscription for various purposes including development API Rest Service with Restlet framework, front-end applications with Spring and Spring Boot framework, back-end applications, writing automation test-cases on Selenium, and creating some convenient tools with Java. The Java application is well structured and strictly object-orientation, making it easy to understand, manage, and maintain.
- Plenty of support built into the tool and IDE like Maven, Ant, Eclipse, IntelliJ.
- Strong object-orientation language and clear project structure.
- It offers a huge library and framework support from third parties and the community.
- It is hard to manage memory.
- Swing UI module is not good.
- Need time to initiate VM, so the startup time is a little slow compared to other programs like Bash or Python.
April 12, 2021
java updates are not hassle anymore
[Oracle Java SE Subscription] is being used across all departments of our organization. This helps us reducing the cost of being updated with new updates coming. Instead we subscribe once for all of them and updates are not a hassle anymore. It keeps our deployments up to date in terms of new updates without any extra efforts in both local and cloud environments. Their support eases our developers to have experienced professionals working with them in parallel to their efforts on their projects and aims.
- Excellent support
- New updates are no more hassle
- Reduced cost
- Sense of security
- Great performance
- Analysis of threads in real-time definitely needs improvement
- Cost of subscription seeking reduction
April 12, 2021
Write once and run on any platform
It's indirectly used for Continuous Delivery by TeamCity. Its availability on Windows, Linux and macOS makes it suitable for any CI/CD pipeline agent. It's also used internally for certificates management, malware and product testing systems orchestration. Some of the know how is exchanged with the mobile development team. Was also used for analytics collection.
- Platform independent (can be used across different teams and OSes).
- Easy learning curve.
- Great library support, especially PKCS and ASN.
- Slower.
- "Wordy" and very strict when it comes to types.
- No unsigned built in support.
April 12, 2021
Great software with minor tweaks required
Oracle Java SE has been used in our organization for quite a long time. It is a great software and eases our app building scenario; our users are used to this software and prefer this over other competitors because of its top-of-the-line development environment. It is being used in our organization department for both development and deployment. Overall a very good software and easy to understand.
- Used for development by our employees because of easy-to-understand UI
- Deployment is also done using Oracle Java SE
- Easy-to-understand user interface that is very familiar to our developers, which makes it a fun software to play with
- Java implies that one needs to use many words, as it's quite similar but the code is drastically huge
- It is lagging behind and we had to find a tool to create our own graphical user interface
- When the garbage collector works it makes the apps really slow, which makes it difficult to use
April 10, 2021
Oracle Java SE Subscription - Always with you
Over the years, many solutions programmed in Java have been implemented for its robustness, stability and portability that it offers, but as time passes and new versions are presented and used with new functionalities and improvements, it is necessary to have control over how they are. The Java versions are distributed in the different solutions that are available and that is where Oracle Java SE Subscription comes into action, providing great help in the maintenance of all versions, as well as the state in which they are, providing updates for the old versions, etc.
- Collect in an inventory all versions of Java that have been used in different applications.
- Determine the status of old versions of Java and update or apply essential security patches.
- Oracle Support is the best to be able to solve problems in an agile and safe way.
- Fast update cycles to make new features available.
- For older versions of Java it could provide instructions or support to migrate to the version supported by the application that is more recent.
- The definition of rules by browser between versions of Java used could be suggested among the most common or that increase security.
- For the developer environment, it would be very useful to have available a list of the functions or procedures that have been outdated or replaced by version.
April 10, 2021
All in one package to stay in peace with Java
The Oracle Java SE Subscription is implemented in all technical departments throughout our organization to reduce the overall cost by subscribing once instead of upgrading every few months. It helps to keep the deployments updated and upgraded in desktop, server, and cloud environments. It enables our Java developers to get benefited from excellent support anytime from a highly experienced support team for achieving maximum performance in their deployments and getting instant fixes.
- Reduced overall cost
- Highly experienced support team
- Instant support anytime
- Timely updates and upgrades
- Quick fixes and technical solutions
- Performance management
- Assurance of security
- Subscription cost per user is high.
- Updates are very frequent.
- Real-time thread analysis seeks betterment.
- Lack of awareness seen among users.
April 09, 2021
My review of Oracle Java SE Subscription
All production services are using Oracle JDK.
- Rarely run into critical problems
- Performance is better in the latest offering (JDK 11)
- Support is not very responsive
- Documentation for low level APIs need improvements
April 09, 2021
Oracle Java SE Subscription is a great choice!
Oracle Java SE Subscription is used throughout the sales department I am in as well as all the other departments at our organization and provides back-end support to our entire team. Our entire server benefits from the subscription's Java security updates. It helps our organization out immensely with its security protections and support base.
- Compatible with large number of applications
- Large amount of community support available
- Highly secure
- Pricey subscription and certification fees
- Updates tend to be very frequent and sometimes only implement the smallest of changes
- The user interface is intricate and confusing at times
April 09, 2021
Efficient Subscription Service Kept us Running Smoothly
Oracle Java SE Subscription was being used in our IT department and e-commerce department and leveraged for our e-commerce projects, such new website launches and running some of our backend systems. It kept us using the most up-to-date version as opposed to running the old default versions that become obsolete every so often.
- Always up to date
- Smooth updates with little to no interruption
- Easy integration and maintenance