https://foojay.io/today/where-do-you-get-your-java/ a place for friends of OpenJDK Mon, 05 Feb 2024 03:15:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://foojay.io/today/where-do-you-get-your-java/#comment-17022 Mon, 05 Feb 2024 03:15:53 +0000 https://foojay.io/?p=105639#comment-17022 […] Where do you get your Java? – Several vendors now offer Java distributions that fully comply with the official Java specification. So, you might be wondering: Are they all the same? If not, what differentiates them, and how do I know which one to use? […]

]]> https://foojay.io/today/where-do-you-get-your-java/#comment-17016 Sun, 04 Feb 2024 22:49:43 +0000 https://foojay.io/?p=105639#comment-17016 […] Where do you get your Java? – Several vendors now offer Java distributions that fully comply with the official Java specification. So, you might be wondering: Are they all the same? If not, what differentiates them, and how do I know which one to use? […]

]]> https://foojay.io/today/where-do-you-get-your-java/#comment-16511 Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:16:01 +0000 https://foojay.io/?p=105639#comment-16511 The statement “OpenJ9 technologies can provide up to 50% smaller containers.” is not 100% correct. The Eclipse Temurin JDK and the Azul Zulu Builds provide musl variants. This way it is possible to create even smaller containers, as the base container size is already small. OpenJ9 does not support musl and as far as I was able to see, the musl/alpine support was always declined by the project.

]]> https://foojay.io/today/where-do-you-get-your-java/#comment-16269 Fri, 19 Jan 2024 02:39:04 +0000 https://foojay.io/?p=105639#comment-16269 Wow, “that’s one heck of a curveball ya’ got there, Rich”: the article comes straight down the pike for the first half (with helpful history and perspective on Java and jvm’s in general), and then tails away subtly midway with a hat-tip to Semeru, only to turn clearly to all-Semeru before it crosses the plate. Wrong? Some might grumble, sure. Or “well-played”, a tech evangelist might say. 🙂

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