The
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 high-quality runtimes and associated technology for use across the
Java
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ecosystem. To do so the Adoptium Working Group will build and provide
OpenJDK 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 Working Group was launched by
Alibaba Cloud,
Huawei
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IBM, ,
Karakun AG,
Microsoft
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New Relic, and
Red Hat 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. The initial release in October 2021 supported Java 8, 11 and 17. The name for the project, Temurin, is an anagram of the word ''runtime''.
History
Eclipse Adoptium originally started as AdoptOpenJDK. AdoptOpenJDK was founded in 2017 and provided enterprises with
free and open-source Java
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runtimes.
In 2020, AdoptOpenJDK moved to the
Eclipse Foundation project under the name Eclipse Adoptium. The working group produces binaries via the Eclipse Temurin project.
Members
As of October 2022, there are 11 members:
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Alibaba Cloud
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Azul Systems
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Bloomberg L.P.
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Google
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Huawei
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IBM
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* Karakun AG
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Microsoft
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New Relic
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Red Hat
References
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