The Oracle announced the JDK 7’s end of life. The April, 2015 release is the last publicly available update. Here after there are no patches released against to JDK 7. All the users who are using Java 7 should upgrade to Java 8. As we are having many other tools running based on Java 7, we need to think about the compatibility of those with Java 8. If they are not compatible, we need to compromise the security vulnerabilities(As there are no bug fixes for Java 7 going forward) or get the Oracle premium support to stay back with JDK 7 or move to different JVM like Azul Systems.
Siva Janapati is an Architect with experience in building Cloud Native Microservices architectures, Reactive Systems, Large scale distributed systems, and Serverless Systems. Siva has hands-on in architecture, design, and implementation of scalable systems using Cloud, Java, Go lang, Apache Kafka, Apache Solr, Spring, Spring Boot, Lightbend reactive tech stack, APIGEE edge & on-premise and other open-source, proprietary technologies. Expertise working with and building RESTful, GraphQL APIs. He has successfully delivered multiple applications in retail, telco, and financial services domains. He manages the GitHub(https://github.com/2013techsmarts) where he put the source code of his work related to his blog posts.
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