Big Blue joins the Eclipse Adoptium and offers free certified JDKs with Eclipse OpenJ9.
This week IBM announced that it has joined the Eclipse Adoptium working group as an enterprise member. More importantly, the company said it has committed to building and publishing Java SE TCK-certified JDK binaries with OpenJ9. And most importantly, they will offer these binaries free of charge.
The move comes after Microsoft previewed its own OpenJDK flavour last week.
IBM has been active in the AdoptOpenJDK community for some time now. Its developers have contributed scripts and tests, and Big Blue has also influenced the release process, sending AdoptOpenJDK’s binaries out over multiple platforms.
Delivering Java SE TCK-certified JDK binaries with OpenJ9 “at no cost.”
Mark Stoodley and Samir Kamerkar of IBM described the new development in a company blog post this week. “IBM is pleased to announce that we are joining the Eclipse Adoptium working group as an enterprise member,” they wrote.
This week Adoptium announced that they will market and promote a wide variety of JDK releases. These releases are certified by the Java SE TCK test suite and meet its own AQAvit quality criteria. Adoptium also announced they will build their own binary called Eclipse Temurin which meets those same criteria.
“As part of IBM’s continuing commitment to Eclipse Adoptium and the Eclipse OpenJ9 Java Virtual Machine, IBM will build and publish Java SE TCK-certified JDK binaries with OpenJ9 at no cost.”
Under the stewardship of the Eclipse Foundation, the AdoptOpenJDK community project is moving to form the Adoptium working group. “We look forward to continuing to collaborate with that same community to build JDKs and to help advance the quality for all JDK releases that use the Adoptium infrastructure,” they said.
“IBM has already contributed a huge number of our own release tests to the AdoptOpenJDK project,” they said. “We are excited by the opportunity to work with others to continue raising the quality of Java release binaries, including the Adoptium project’s new OpenJDK binary called Eclipse Temurin.”
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