... if you're willing and able to update your entire app to a new JDK the month it comes out.
This is where I hope Java adopts the .NET support lifecycle. .NET also has (relatively) fast-paced releases now, once per year with LTS every other year, but the prior non-LTS is supported for 3 months after the next one comes out. That's still pretty aggressive, but it's very doable with a modern app to upgrade within 3 months.
With Java, JDK 15 support ends this month, the same month that JDK 16 comes out. Not just that, but we're halfway through the month already. So if you're on JDK 15, you now have only two weeks to upgrade and still be supported, according to their official schedule.
Edit: I may have been too generous in my reading of their support roadmap. It seems like the previous non-LTS version is immediately out of support as soon as the new one "supersedes" it.
This is where I hope Java adopts the .NET support lifecycle. .NET also has (relatively) fast-paced releases now, once per year with LTS every other year, but the prior non-LTS is supported for 3 months after the next one comes out. That's still pretty aggressive, but it's very doable with a modern app to upgrade within 3 months.
With Java, JDK 15 support ends this month, the same month that JDK 16 comes out. Not just that, but we're halfway through the month already. So if you're on JDK 15, you now have only two weeks to upgrade and still be supported, according to their official schedule.
https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/java-se-support-roa...
Edit: I may have been too generous in my reading of their support roadmap. It seems like the previous non-LTS version is immediately out of support as soon as the new one "supersedes" it.