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The problem with visiting that site is that Oracle have started litigating against users of their JVMs.

In that way the JVM can be "heavy".



With users that use commercial features without paying for them.

It is quite easy to know which features those are when they require a flag named -XX:+UnlockCommercialFeatures, you just don't use them by mistake.


Oracle gives free license to use commercial features in development[1] in section B. It is very easy to some script for JVM startup parameters and get that script deployed in production by mistake.

1. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/terms/license/...


Quite right, but unless I am too cynical I doubt those deployments were actually done by mistake, when I relate how many companies try to "alleviate" their costs.




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