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2. How do you plan to respond to Java’s new release cycle?
   While the Java 9 release brought with it some major architectural changes, it also introduced a
   new release cadence in which Java SE versions ship every six months. Every two to three years,
   a long-term support (LTS) release offers longer-term support, such as security updates. This
   question asks how development teams will respond to the new release cadence. The responses

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Eclipse OpenJ9/IBM J

OpenJDK

Oracle JDKNone

Other

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Eclipse OpenJ9/IBM J

OpenJDK

Oracle JDK

70%

21%

1%

1% 3%

4%

Don't know yet

Stay with long-term support (LTS) releases

Decide on a release-by-release basis

Always stay on the latest version of Java

Don’t know yet

Stay with long-term support (LTS) releases

Decide on a release-by-release basis

Always stay on the latest version of Java

34%

28%

30%

8%