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Oracle Java SE

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What is Oracle Java SE?

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.

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Oracle Java SE is evergreen

8 out of 10
September 28, 2021
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What is Oracle Java SE?

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.

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What is Java Cloud?

Oracle offers the Java Cloud Service, a PaaS supporting the fast and easy development of Java applications.

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Product Details

What is Oracle Java SE?

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.

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The most common users of Oracle Java SE are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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November 04, 2021

Oracle Java SE: a tried and true development tool for rapid software development

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Internet Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Java is the most widely used programming language at our company. The flexibility (OS agnostic), ease of rapid development, as well as the relative high performance helps us react quickly to our ever changing ecosystem (ad-tech). We use Java on all types of applications, from a low latency exchange to a backend web API for a user-facing application.
Pros and Cons
  • The JVM makes deploying across platforms simple
  • Widely supported in the open-source community
  • Actively maintained and developed
  • Very object oriented, hard to use modern functional programming paradigms
  • GC can cause performance issues
Likelihood to Recommend
Java is well suited for an application that needs to focus on applying business logic and rapid feature development. Java is lacking when performance and computing resources are constrained.
Return on Investment
  • Rapid development
  • JVM tuning yields lower hardware costs
Alternatives Considered
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.
Usability
7
Java is very useable and very readable. The only complaint I have is annotation and how they hide and obfuscate code.
Support Rating
8
Great support for Oracle and the open-source community
Other Software Used
October 05, 2020

Modern language with an outdated UI toolkit

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Employee in Research & Development
Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Java in our main application for physics simulation. Until it became a paid license, we shipped our product with Oracle Java SE. Now we ship with AdoptOpenJDK, but still, support using Oracle Java SE with our product.
Pros and Cons
  • Supports multiple platforms
  • Supports modern concepts such as streams and functional interfaces
  • Good tooling available (IDEs, debuggers, profilers, etc)
  • No ability to automatically clean up resources such as via destructors in C++. End users must explicitly invoke a method (e.g. close, dispose) to ensure resources are freed in a timely manner.
  • Garbage collection can introduce pauses at runtime (although this is improving)
  • Memory leaks are sometimes difficult to find due to automatic garbage collection
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
Return on Investment
  • Almost our entire client application is written in Java with over 1 million lines of code
  • The ability to run on multiple platforms using the same code with minimal branching is great
Alternatives Considered
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.
Support Rating
7
It is possible to submit bugs to the Java development team, although they aren't always addressed in a timely manner. It would be better if you could comment on tickets in the bug database (at least on the ones you entered). You can update your own tickets, but the process is clunky. There is paid support available, but we don't use that. It is also possible to become a contributor to the OpenJDK project.
Usability
9
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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