A global survey of 2,039 Java developers published today finds 63% reporting that dead and unused code adversely affects their team’s productivity, with 22% describing the impact of that technical debt as being severe. Conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of Azul, a provider of a distribution of OpenJDK, the survey also finds that more […]
Eclipse Foundation Opens Marketplace for OpenJDK Binaries
The Eclipse Foundation this week opened an Adoptium Marketplace through which DevOps teams can access Java binaries based on the OpenJDK specification. OpenJDK was created based on the Java standard edition (SE) of the programming language and virtual machine. Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, said the goal is to make it easier […]
Eclipse Foundation Creates Adoptium Working Group for OpenJDK Binaries
The Eclipse Foundation announced today a working group that will establish a governance framework for an Eclipse Adoptium project that enables developers to download compatible runtimes based on OpenJDK source code. Members of the Adoptium working group include Alibaba Cloud, Huawei, IBM, iJUG, Karakun AG, Microsoft, New Relic and Red Hat. OpenJDK is a free […]
Oracle Includes GraalVM Support in Java SE Subscription
Oracle announced today it is adding a GraalVM Enterprise virtual machine for building Java applications to Java SE Subscription at no additional cost. Donald Smith, senior director of product management from the Java Platform Group at Oracle, said GraalVM Enterprise provides developers with a high-performance application runtime, built on Oracle Java SE, that includes a […]
Azul Adds OpenJDK Migration Services
Azul today announced today it will provide migration services for IT organizations looking to transition from the proprietary Oracle Java Standard Edition (SE) developer platform to the Zulu edition of an open source OpenJDK equivalent. OpenJDK is based on the HotpSpot edition of the Java virtual machine, the Java Class Library and the Java compiler. […]
Pivotal Software Embraces OpenJDK
Pivotal Software has officially thrown its weight behind OpenJDK, the open source version of the standard edition of Java, by adding support for OpenJDK to the Pivotal Spring Runtime on its Spring framework. At the same time, Pivotal announced it is extending its commercial support for open source Apache Tomcat servers in addition to providing […]