Microsoft Java Engineering Group News Today

26 May 2021 11:13am, by Darryl Taft Microsoft made its distribution of OpenJDK generally available at its Build 2021 virtual conference so that developers who want to use Java on the Azure cloud can do so. OpenJDK is the free and open-source reference implementation of the Java SE Platform, which includes the Java Development Kit (JDK). The GA release of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK follows swiftly behind an April preview release of the technology, which is a long-term support distrib...

On April 6, Microsoft is rolling out a preview of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, a long-term support distribution of the OpenJDK. It includes the binaries for Java 11 and is available on x64 server and desktop environments on Windows, as well as on MacOS and Linux. Microsoft also is publishing today a new early-access release for Java 16 on Windows on Arm. (Last June, Microsofts Java Engineering Group announced it had completed the first phase of porting OpenJDK for Windows on Arm.) Microsoft...