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Adoptium () Working Group is the successor of AdoptOpenJDK. The main goal of Adoptium is to promote and support

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high-quality runtimes and associated technology for use across the

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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

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, IBM, , Karakun AG,

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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

runtimes. In 2020, AdoptOpenJDK moved to the

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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: *

* Azul Systems * Bloomberg L.P. *

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* IBM * * Karakun AG *

* New Relic * Red Hat

References

External links

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