Zoom on Jdk Builds

Period of changes regarding Java and Jdk, impact on builds (open or not, free or not), release and support. Few blogs and articles entry points to keep an eye on those changes

Jdk Builds

Beyond Oracle Jdk

• https://blog.joda.org/2018/09/time-to-look-beyond-oracles-jdk.html

Differences between Oracle Jdk build and OpenJdk Build

• https://jaxenter.com/oracle-jdk-builds-openjdk-builds-difference-149318.html

Two Oracle builds

• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
• http://jdk.java.net/

Java Champions to the rescue

• https://medium.com/@javachampions/java-is-still-free-c02aef8c9e04
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nFGazvrCvHMZJgFstlbzoHjpAVwv5DEdnaBr_5pKuHo/edit
• https://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/Issue260.html
• https://developer.okta.com/blog/2019/01/16/which-java-sdk

Resume regarding public and inner Jdk classes

• https://www.azul.com/javas-magic-sauce/

Think from Simon Ritter

• https://www.azul.com/dont-fear-the-java/

Rafael Winterhalter Twitter Thread

• https://twitter.com/rafaelcodes/status/1188480567010086912

Some more …

• https://www.baeldung.com/oracle-jdk-vs-openjdk

Jdk Support

• https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/09/java-support-options-sept18
• https://www.azul.com/java-stable-secure-free-choose-two-three/

Jdk Sources : keep mercurial or go to Git ? (project Skara)

• https://jaxenter.com/mercurial-git-scm-java-12-part-3-148112.html
• http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2018-July/004801.html
• Open Jdk Git mirroring https://github.com/openjdk/jdk

Various Jdk Sources

Tools and initiatives to the rescue

• SDKMan tool for managing parallel versions of multiple Software Development Kits on most Unix based systems https://sdkman.io/
• Various information about JDK, a place for friends of OpenJDK https://foojay.io/
• AdoptOpen JDK
  https://adoptopenjdk.net/ pre built distributions
  https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK
• Java is still Free https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nFGazvrCvHMZJgFstlbzoHjpAVwv5DEdnaBr_5pKuHo/edit#heading=h.p3qt2oh5eczi Java champion explanations

Open JDK

https://openjdk.java.net/

Oracle JDK

• https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
• Open one http://jdk.java.net/

Microsoft JDK

• https://github.com/microsoft/openjdk
• https://www.microsoft.com/openjdk

Eclipse Open J9 (from previously IBM J9)

• https://www.eclipse.org/openj9/
• https://github.com/eclipse/openj9

Redhat IcedTea

• https://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/Main_Page

SAP Machine

• https://sap.github.io/SapMachine/
• https://github.com/SAP/SapMachine

Amazon JDK Corretto

• https://aws.amazon.com/fr/corretto/
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/corretto/latest/corretto-8-ug/what-is-corretto-8.html
• https://github.com/corretto

Alibaba JDK Corretto

• https://www.alibabacloud.com/blog/alibaba-makes-dragonwell-openjdk-open-source_594624
• https://github.com/alibaba/dragonwell8

Pivotal Spring Runtime

• https://pivotal.io/de/pivotal-spring-runtime
• https://content.pivotal.io/blog/introducing-pivotal-spring-runtime-full-support-for-openjdk-spring-framework-and-apache-tomcat

Liberica JDK

• https://bell-sw.com/pages/java-13.0.1/
• https://github.com/bell-sw/Liberica