Article - CS294350
[Knowledge Hub] Oracle JDK Support Roadmap for PTC Products
Modified: 02-Jun-2025
Applies To
- Creo Elements/Direct Model Manager / Drawing Manager 20.00 M040 to 20.2
- Creo Layout 2.0 to 6.0
- Creo Parametric 1.0 to 12.4
- Windchill PDMLink 9.1 to 11.1
- Service Knowledge and Diagnostics 5.2 to 5.8
- Creo Direct 1.0 to 6.0
- ThingWorx Platform 4.1 to 8.5
- Axeda - Connectivity (no data)
- Axeda - Toolkits Unknown
- Axeda - Platform Unknown
- PTC RV&S (formerly Integrity Lifecycle Manager) 2009 to 12.1
- PTC Arbortext Editor 8.1
- PTC Arbortext Editor 8.0
Description
- Impact of the Oracle Business Model Change on PTC Products
- Java support by PTC from January 2019
- Oracle has announced changes to their Java support policies effective January 2019 that affect many PTC products that use Java
- After January 1, 2019, PTC will no longer be authorized to distribute non-publicly available versions of Java JRE (Java Runtime Environment) or the JDK (Java Development Kit) with product installations or in maintenance updates
- Post-January 2019, PTC will no longer distribute Java for any new product releases or any maintenance update, except for free trial and freemium products
- For products released prior to January 2019, PTC may continue to distribute a publicly-available version of Java with the product release only
- It will be necessary to retain support contracts with Oracle starting in January 2019 to receive updates to Java for PTC products and to install new versions of products
- Is OpenJDK supported?
- OpenJDK support? And its alternative
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