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Oracle says Visual Studio Code is growing in popularity as a general-purpose IDE, a tool that changes the relationship between programming languages and their IDEs.

 In the past, developers first chose a development language and then an IDE. Today, tools such as Visual Studio Code can provide good support for most development languages.

 Although Java itself has excellent professional IDEs, a large number of Java developers currently use Visual Studio Code. We hope that Java developers can develop their favorite content in their favorite IDE.

Oracle claims that the Visual Studio Code extension will support the current JDK version as well as future JDK versions. The current initial version already provides the following features:

     "Project view"

     "auto-complete"

     "Error highlighting"

     "jump to definition"

     "Automatic reconstruction"

     "JavaDoc-on-hover"

     "Debug Support"

     "Unit-testing support for JUnit"

     "Support for Gradle and Maven projects".

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According to the 2023 Java Ecosystem Report published by New Relic, Java 17 has seen a 430% increase in developer adoption one year after launch; Java 14 is the most popular non-LTS version.

The content based on the report is as follows:

Java designates a long-term support (LTS) release every 2-3 years that push quarterly stability, security, and performance updates but does not introduce new features.

In production environments, 56% of application development currently uses Java 11 (up from 48% in 2022 and 11% in 2020) and 33% of development uses Java 8 (down from 46% in 2022).

While Java 11 tops the list for the second year in a row, Java 17 adoption is catching up fast. More than 9 percent of applications now use Java 17 in production (up from less than 1 percent in 2022), indicating a 430 percent growth rate in one year.

Amazon has replaced Oracle as the most popular Java Development Kit (JDK) vendor. Oracle has about 75% of the Java market share in 2020.

While Oracle retains the top spot with a 34% share in 2022, it slips to 28% by 2023. Amazon’s market share has grown significantly to 31 percent (up from 2.18 percent in 2020 and 22 percent in 2022).

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Industry experts say the new model, under which companies using Java will have to buy software licenses for each “employee,” is a dramatic shift from the previous model.

Oracle, which acquired Sun Microsystems, which includes Java, in 2009, said the new Java SE Universal Subscription is “a simple, low-cost monthly subscription that includes Java SE licensing and support for desktop, server or cloud deployments. Customers of traditional Java SE subscription offerings continue to receive all of the original benefits and can renew their subscriptions based on their existing terms and metrics.”

Oracle has included a price list that shows the key difference between the old and new models is that Java will be licensed on a per “employee” basis, rather than a per “user” or per processor basis, as the old model allowed.

While Oracle has promised to allow legacy users to renew under their current contracts, over time it may put pressure on users to adopt the new model.

This shift will penalize companies that have spent years minimizing their Java usage by finding that they are charged on a “per employee” basis regardless of how much Java they use.

For example, a customer using the Oracle Java Universal License now has new pricing and their Java costs have gone up tenfold. For companies using Java, the expense will increase by an average of 2 to 4 times.

“Oracle can monitor not only the download of the software but also the installation and operation of Java. So we can advertise the new subscription model to customers using Java in advance.”

Nathan Biggs, CEO of House of Bricks, estimates that a company with 250 employees, 20 Java desktop users, and 8 Java-installed processors would pay $3,000 a year under the old model (about 20,340 CNY currently) in the new one. Under the subscription model, the annual expenditure has grown to $45,000 (currently about 305,000 CNY), an increase of 1400%.

“What this means for organizations is that companies must now count every employee, contractor, consultant and agent to determine the Java subscription bill, regardless of Java user or server usage. Companies are potentially on the hook for significant increases in subscription costs, which can have a significant impact on operations.”

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