Oracle Java SE Reviews & Insights

Score8.7 out of 10

256 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Oracle Java SE are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Platform Independence: Users have praised Java for its platform independence, which allows them to seamlessly develop and deploy applications across various operating systems, enhancing flexibility and reach. For example, this feature enables developers to create software that can run on both Windows and Unix-based systems without significant modifications.

Robustness: Many reviewers have highlighted the robust nature of Java programming, emphasizing its ability to handle complex tasks efficiently and reliably in diverse environments, contributing to a stable development experience. This reliability is particularly crucial for mission-critical applications where downtime is not an option.

Extensive Frameworks and Libraries: Users appreciate the extensive availability of frameworks and libraries for Java development, enabling them to leverage a wide range of tools and resources effectively in their projects, fostering innovation and productivity. The abundance of resources like Spring Framework or Apache Commons provides developers with pre-built solutions to common problems, speeding up the development process significantly.

Oracle Java SE Reviews

20 Reviews

Enterprises (1,001+ employees)

Oracle Java SE is the best JDK for Java programming

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 3, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We as an information technology company use Oracle Java SE to develop various tools and services for our clients. We develop applications, software, and endpoints to bring the clients business and information in the world of the web. Using java design patterns we are writing codes for designing servlets, interfaces, and endpoints to expose and fetch the data to or from the third party system, implementing spring framework to develop a power web portal. Java is one of the great open-source backend programming languages.

Pros

Platform independent, robust and secure programming
Auto memory management using garbage collection
Huge number of framework available for development

Cons

Oracle doc can be improve more in detail

Likelihood to Recommend

Oracle Java SE is suited for web portal development, various mobile app development or Andriod, developing endpoints and API including REST and SOAP web services, OSGi fragmentation, and many more. A huge number of tools are Java as backend programming to add on the feature and functionality to their tool.

Mohammad Rashid Raza

Technical Lead in Information Technology at GSPANN (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

9 years of experience

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Oracle Java SE is evergreen

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

September 28, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Across the organization JDK is used, microservices development is the key area where JDK is used. All kinds of businesses like data modeling, file read, logging, email processing, API calls, different libraries written using SE are used to solve many implementations challenges. [Oracle Java SE] is used for any latest and greatest platforms available in the world.

Pros

Lot of coding has to be done in case of [Oracle Java SE] compared to python
Memory optimization

Cons

Mathematical operations in short codes
Graph and network related libraries should be added

Likelihood to Recommend

Enterprise level, web applications, security concerned application, embedded systems, cloud-based applications, best design patterns, and good programming standards are the places where [Oracle Java SE] is best suited. [Oracle Java SE] is best for large applications that could be broken down [into] microservices and can fulfill all the required implementations and support for EE.

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology (Information Technology & Services company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

16 years of experience

Queen of OOP--Java

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 11, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The project on which my team is working is using Oracle Java SE. It is used by all the software developers in the team. We are using different libraries in Java for the front-end and back-end development of the software.

Pros

Highly secure and object oriented
Exception handling
Easy integration with other open-source libraries

Cons

No option of pointers in Java
Memory management is not well handled

Likelihood to Recommend

It depends on the technology on which the team is working. If you need to develop software with respect to object-oriented programming principles, Java is one of the best programming languages available. One can use Angular and other frameworks for the front end and Java as a back end.

Shipra Dubey

Software Engineer in Information Technology at Accenture (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Modern language with an outdated UI toolkit

Rating: 3 out of 10

Incentivized

October 5, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Java in our main application for physics simulation. Until it became a paid license, we shipped our product with Oracle Java SE. Now we ship with AdoptOpenJDK, but still, support using Oracle Java SE with our product.

Pros

Supports multiple platforms
Supports modern concepts such as streams and functional interfaces
Good tooling available (IDEs, debuggers, profilers, etc)

Cons

No ability to automatically clean up resources such as via destructors in C++. End users must explicitly invoke a method (e.g. close, dispose) to ensure resources are freed in a timely manner.
Garbage collection can introduce pauses at runtime (although this is improving)
Memory leaks are sometimes difficult to find due to automatic garbage collection

Likelihood to Recommend

Oracle Java SE is well suited to long-running applications (e.g. servers). Java Swing (UI toolkit) is now rather outdated, lacking support for modern UI features. JavaFX, the potential replacement for Swing, has now been separated out of Java core. Ideally, there would be a path to migrate a large application incrementally from Swing to JavaFX, but due to different threading models and other aspects, it is difficult. At this point, it is probably better to use an embedded web browser (e.g. JxBrowser) to provide a modern UI in HTML/Javascript and keep just the business logic in Java.

Verified User

Employee in Research & Development (Computer Software company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

9 years of experience

Java SE Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 19, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use this structure in software development for some internal and external applications.

Pros

We use our Enterprise Resouce Planning Applications development. And Java SE performance is very powerful.
Our budget planning application uses Java SE. Easy, very useful.
For Financial Consolidation application we use JAVA SE.

Cons

Application improvements can be made more easily.
Security and scheduling effects are made difficult in Java SE settings for critical applications.
Costs should be at the appropriate level.

Likelihood to Recommend

Oracle Java SE is well suited for scientific applications. One of its biggest strengths is that it combines scientific opportunities with enterprise stability, scalability and security.

And for machine learning, data science, etc. less appropriate.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (Telecommunications company, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

20 years of experience

Oracle Java SE is my main programming language for various types of applications

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 19, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Oracle Java SE for various purposes including development API Rest Service with Restlet framework, front-end applications with Spring and Spring Boot framework, back-end applications, writing automation test-cases on Selenium using java SE and creating some convenient tools with Java. The Java application is well structured and strictly object-orientation making it easy to understand, manage and maintain.

Pros

Plenty support built into the tool and IDE like Maven, Ant, Eclipse, IntelliJ.
Strong object-orientation language and clear project structure.
Wrapper underlines hardware and memory management so the developers can focus on business and implementation.
It offers a huge library and framework support from third-parties and the community.

Cons

It is hard to manage memory.
Swing UI module is not good.
Need time to initiate VM so the startup time is a little slow compared to other programs like Bash or Python.

Likelihood to Recommend

Oracle Java SE is the most popular program language and it suitable for almost kind of application and special for the big system which needs to separate into many sub-application with different business and deployment types as Java has many frameworks, libraries, and tools. Many of these are open-source tools by the community and support various integration types from Rest, SOAP API, RMI, File access... It has allowed me to be able to deploy in multiple OS without changing the code. In case the Application needs to deeply access hardware such as the driver, memory address, OS thread or needs to strickly manage memory such as allocating, pointing and deallocating, we needed another programming language.

Trang Nguyen

Senior Test Engineer in Information Technology at FPT-USA Corporation (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Really good value in maintainable language.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

October 7, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is really an usable product. A lot of banking environment depends on it and most of the applications created on the banking stacks are utilizing the product. The developer learning curve is OK and it makes a really good basis for Object oriented programming. I can clearly recommend to learn it as a lot of open positions are there with Java language requirements.

Pros

Server application
Desktop application
Mobile applications

Cons

The previous lifecycle update was slow
The community process was really closed
The vm was slow to start

Likelihood to Recommend

One of the best tools for SOA.

Verified User

Technician in Information Technology (Banking company, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Java: a workhorse of business applications

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

September 26, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Java is the standard language for writing applications in an enterprise. Its dominant use is in writing business applications, but also for developing tools, particularly those that deal with databases and data. It is also used for Big Data applications, where the JVM allows for the use of other languages in the ecosystem. For example, Scala and Kotlin.

Pros

Mature platform.
Variety of enterprise-grade libraries.
Easy to find and hire developers.
Great performance.

Cons

Less verbose code.
Lighter deployments.
Inclusion of modern language constructs (as found in Scala and Kotlin).

Likelihood to Recommend

Suitable for:

Business applications.
Tools when startup time is not critical.
Applications that benefit from a huge ecosystem of open-source mature libraries.
When easy hiring is important.

Consider alternatives with:

Serverless applications (cold start with Java can be considerable, look into Go, Node for better performance).
Developing in Kubernetes Cloud ecosystem-- there, most tools use Go.
Big Data processing -- consider Scala and Python.
Data science -- consider Python.
Low-level highly performant code without Garbage Collector -- consider Rust and C++.

Verified User

Director in Information Technology (Internet company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

24 years of experience

Consistent value, but a bit like programming at Fry's Electronics

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

September 18, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My organization mainly uses Microsoft technologies, but when we need to innovate for bleeding edge data analytics, we always lean on Java to provide the fastest data-based software builds.

Pros

Java Handles its own memory well!
Is a typed language, so has great standards.

Cons

I am unsure if the new speed of releases is realistic for the wider talent world to keep up.
Official training and support from Oracle to develop the community feels like it prices out new devs.

Likelihood to Recommend

Java (and Spring) is great for large scale applications or large volumes of microservices. However, it is limited in usability for small quick applications. The boilerplate can be daunting.

Richard Stanley

Director of Digital Software Development in Engineering at Apex Systems (Information Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

21 years of experience

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Java SE from a Developer's perspective.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

September 18, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It's being used by to develop applications for naval combat systems. It's being used across the entire organization for various projects along with other programming languages. It addresses the business problem of needing a common programming language to create applications for combat and situational awareness that is well known and easy to understand.

Pros

Easy to understand, commonly taught in schools
Reliable
Can be developed once and used anywhere

Cons

Often difficult to diagnose memory leaks
Cost
Ease of obtaining support

Likelihood to Recommend

Java is good for larger applications. It's good when the user doesn't want to care about memory management as the garbage collector will handle all that. It's also good as a teaching tool for people who are new to software development how to do it. It's the first language I was taught and my most favorite.

Terra Lo

Computer Scientist in Engineering at NUWC Keyport (Government Relations, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

9 years of experience

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Oracle Java SE is my main programming language for various types of applications

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 19, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Plenty support built into the tool and IDE like Maven, Ant, Eclipse, IntelliJ.
Strong object-orientation language and clear project structure.
Wrapper underlines hardware and memory management so the developers can focus on business and implementation.
It offers a huge library and framework support from third-parties and the community.

Cons

It is hard to manage memory.
Swing UI module is not good.
Need time to initiate VM so the startup time is a little slow compared to other programs like Bash or Python.

Likelihood to Recommend

Trang Nguyen

Senior Test Engineer in Information Technology at FPT-USA Corporation (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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