Microsoft Announces Preview Version of OpenJDK Java Distribution
Microsoft has announced a preview build of its OpenJDK Java distribution.
It’s been a bad week for Oracle. First, the company lost its decade-long battle with Google over Android and its use of Java code. Now the company has a major new competitor to contend with, as Microsoft is making progress on its plans for its own OpenJDK Java distribution.
Microsoft’s distribution has already passed several significant milestones in its development, which the company touted in a blog post.
The Microsoft Build of OpenJDK binaries for Java 11 are based on OpenJDK source code, following the same build scripts used by the Eclipse Adoptium project and tested against the Eclipse Adoptium Quality Assurance suite (including OpenJDK project tests). Our binaries for Java 11 have passed the Java Technical Compatibility Kit (TCK) for Java 11, which is used to verify compatibility with the Java 11 specification. The Microsoft Build
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Bruno
April 6th, 2021
Today we are excited to announce the preview of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, a new no-cost Long-Term Support (LTS) distribution of OpenJDK that is open source and available for free for anyone to deploy anywhere. It includes binaries for Java 11, based on OpenJDK 11.0.10+9, on x64 server and desktop environments on macOS, Linux, and Windows. We are also publishing a new Early Access binary for Java 16 for Windows on ARM, based on the latest OpenJDK 16+36 release.
Visit
microsoft.com/openjdk to download packages and installers.
Java is one of the most important programming languages used today developers use Java to build everything from critical enterprise applications to hobby robots. At Microsoft, we’ve seen increasing growth in customer use of Java across our cloud services and development tools. We’re continually working to broaden and deepen our Java support for customers and developers.