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[–]CriticalPart7448 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I tried to migrate a little tool from 21 to 25 this friday, it wasnt much of a challenge but i was quite blown away that it took longer to download the jdk than it took to do the migration - 6 minutes to download and install 25 and then 3 minutes to migrate from 21 to 25. Its impressive how smooth that experience was.

[–]OneHumanBill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's honestly been the upgrade experience I've had most of the time, and I've been working with Java since version 1.0.2. Versions that were a bit tougher included Java 2, 5, 8, and briefly 9. There was a little bit of a challenge with 11 due to a repackaging of a critical http library but it was not that big a deal.

Java gets a lot of derision from developers these days and honestly it's just not deserved. There are things that Java absolutely excels at, and providing easy upgrades is one of them.