Java 10, already!

Java 9 we hardly knew ye, yet here we are and today was the GA release of Java 10. This is especially true for those of us using Spring boot as we just got official Java 9 support a couple of weeks ago and now 10 is out. From my standpoint the big features of the release are the Root Certificates. Java 9 shipped without root certificates if you used OpenJDK which in my mind makes it less useable as now you have to with that, you can’t just run it and go. That is what was keeping me on Oracle’s releases of Java. Now in Java 10 there is no difference with the oracle JDK and the OpenJDK so I will probably just deploy my apps on OpenJDK in the future. That simplifies Linux installation as now you can just run apt-get install and go. Before I used to have to add the ppa for Oracles and install it and then deal with the strong crypto policy files. All those old pain points are gone.