Oracle java is a complex mess behind the scenes, quite how anybody thinks java is efficient is plain bonkers, with the sun java jre is now not distributed with linux distros, ok fine, but to install it required visiting some plain strange oracle sites, and an edit of a users .profile. The thing worked but the app required said no joy.
Eventually…. i discover it was an ‘opensource’ java dependence, that i fished about for and then that java based app worked. Now that kind of complexity is ok for some like me but with a mix of licenses and distribution methods quite how the average person might deal with this is something that worries me, and perhaps they might give up, causing a bad reputation for the java thing, and the java brand.
I dont use much java, and im glad. Mind you i don’t really think Oracle really give a stuff, and if they could forget java im sure it would not bother the billionaire who runs it.
