When the next Long Term Service or “LTS” release is made available, the period of free use will end one (1) year later.

Second, this announcement has an event horizon.

The JRE for commercial or production use remains licensable. Since Java SE 10, there has been a single download, but Oracle will now make the JRE (“Java Runtime Environment”) and the JDK separate.

First off, this is only the Java Development Kit or “JDK” which again will be a separate download.As a result, those packages have moved, and this will require changes to package imports.On Tuesday, September 14, 2021, Oracle announced that it is making its “Oracle JDK available for free” even for commercial and/or production use, but the JRE (Java Runtime Environment) is still a licensed product for a fee Oracle has chosen the Eclipse Foundation as the new home for the Java Platform Enterprise Edition.

Due to lack of browser support for Java plugins, the Applet API has been deprecated.

The “var” keyword only affects local variables, and the Type Inference keeps you repeating the same text over and over again

A developer-friendly keyword “var” was added to help to reduce boilerplate coding.

This is very interesting for serverless-compute and one-offs in Kubernetes

A REPL (read-eval-print-loop) tool, JShell, was added to support interactive programming, similar to what is available in Python.

Modularization also enables code to be refactored for easier maintenance, through a self-describing collection of code, data, and resources.

The introduction of modularity to better support scaling down to small computing devices.

However, the biggest differences between Java 8 and Java 11 are: There are always a lot of little things that go into a release of Java, or any product for that matter.

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