According to Eclipse reports, there were over 12.3 million downloads of standard Java binaries in February. “It’s been three or four months now,” Eclipse chief executive Mike Millingkovich said. Temurin is part of the Eclipse Adoptium working group and forms the basis of the GitHub Actions CI/CD platform and various cloud container images. It is also widely used within the company.
Temurin was already on the rise before the Oracle Java re-licensing controversy, but it accelerated afterward. Oracle has been controversial for changing Java licenses based on the number of employees in the company rather than actual Java users. “Oracle’s policy change accelerated the transition to Temurin,” Millidkovic said. “The number of downloads shows that more and more people are interested in the free version of Java.”
According to Millingkovic, Java users want a high-quality, scalable, and secure version of Java. It’s best to implement this through a vendor-neutral community rather than a single vendor like Oracle. Azul, Google, Microsoft and Red Hat participate in the Eclipse Adaptium project and provide a Java distribution based on the OpenJDK source code. Adaptium binaries are used by Java developers in a variety of places, including desktop computers, traditional servers, cloud platforms, mainframes and embedded systems, Eclipse explained.
OpenJDK-based Temurin can be downloaded from adoptium.net. It is available for Java SE versions 8, 11, 16, 17, 18 and 19. Version 20 will be supported soon. Eclipse provides patches for security vulnerabilities.
Along with this, the Eclipse Adaptium project also includes the AQavit quality test suite for Java implementations. Java tests for quality and security as well as conformance to specifications. Adaptium MarketplaceYou can get Java runtimes from Alibaba Cloud, Azul, Eclipse, Huawei, IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, etc.
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