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Eclipse
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Adoptium () Working Group is the successor of AdoptOpenJDK.
The main goal of Adoptium is to promote and support
free and open-source
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high-quality runtimes and associated technology for use across the
Java
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ecosystem. To do so the Adoptium Working Group (WG) builds and provides
OpenJDK
OpenJDK (Open Java Development Kit) is a free and open-source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE). It is the result of an effort Sun Microsystems began in 2006, four years before the company was acquired by Oracle Corp ...
based binaries under the Eclipse Temurin project. In addition to Temurin the WG creates an open test suite for OpenJDK based binaries as part of the Eclipse AQAvit project.
The Adoptium Working Group was launched by
Alibaba Cloud
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Huawei
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IBM
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Karakun AG,
Microsoft
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,
New Relic
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In ...
, and
Red Hat
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in March 2021.
In May 2022, the Adoptium project announced the formation of the Adoptium Marketplace.
Projects
Eclipse Temurin
The Eclipse Temurin project produces ''Temurin'' (), a certified binary build of
OpenJDK
OpenJDK (Open Java Development Kit) is a free and open-source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE). It is the result of an effort Sun Microsystems began in 2006, four years before the company was acquired by Oracle Corp ...
. The initial release in October 2021 supported Java LTS 8, 11, 17, and 21. The name for the project, Temurin, is an anagram of the word ''runtime''. Since 2023 the Adoptium Working Group members
Azul Systems
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IBM
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,
Open Elements and
Red Hat
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offer commercial support for Temurin.
History
Eclipse Adoptium originally started as AdoptOpenJDK. AdoptOpenJDK was founded in 2017 and provided enterprises with
free and open-source
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Java
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runtimes.
In 2020, AdoptOpenJDK moved to the
Eclipse Foundation
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project under the name Eclipse Adoptium. The working group produces binaries via the Eclipse Temurin project.
Members
As of July 2023, there are 12 members:
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Alibaba Cloud
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Azul Systems
Azul Systems, Inc. (also known as Azul) is a company that develops and distributes runtimes ( JDK, JRE, JVM) for executing Java-based applications. The company was founded in March 2002. Azul Systems has headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.
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Bloomberg L.P.
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Canonical
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Google
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Huawei
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IBM
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Open Elements
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Microsoft
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New Relic
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In ...
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Red Hat
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References
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