Updates java 2019 no longer free of charge

Question

Hello
According to the latest information from Oracle, there will be license costs for various Java updates from 2019 onwards. Our installations use yED with Java 8.
It would be very interesting to see to what extent yWorks will provide a licensed embedded version in the future, or if yWorks will not use Java at all. Who can make a statement?

Answer 1

We have no plans to move away from Java, but neither will we provide a licensed version of Java. Currently, we are contemplating the following options:

1. yEd stays on Java 8. Actually, this would be a no-brainer if Java 8 did support display scaling for HDPI devices because aside from that short-coming Java 8 is (at the time of this writing) significantly more stable than Java 9, 10, and 11 which suffer from very annoying problems with regards to printing on Windows and multi-display support on Linux.
2. yEd is distributed without Java runtime environment. This option is somewhat unlikely, because this is problematic for most yEd users who are no Java experts and should not be required to be Java experts to run yEd.
3. yEd switches to OpenJDK. While OpenJDK quality has much improved recently, switching will only make sense if Oracle actually fixes the aforementioned problems in Java 9, 10, and 11.