Introduction
Alibaba Dragonwell is a free, production-ready Open JDK release that provides long-term support, including performance enhancements and security fixes. Alibaba has the richest Java application scenarios, covering e-commerce, finance, logistics and many other fields, and is one of the largest Java users in the world. As the cornerstone of Java applications, Alibaba Dragonwell supports all Java businesses in the Ali economy. Alibaba Dragonwell is fully compatible with the Java SE standard. You can develop Java applications on any common operating system (including Linux, Windows and macOS). Choose Alibaba Dragonwell for the runtime production environment.
characteristic
Security and stability
Maintain close cooperation with the OpenJDK community, keep track of community work, and synchronize upstream updates in a timely manner; at the same time, Dragonwell selectively transplants important functions of high-version Java. These transplant functions have been deployed on a large scale within Ali, and users can use them for free Without waiting for the next LTS version
Standard compatible
The downstream of OpenJDK fully complies with the Java SE standard and passed the JCK compatibility test
Excellent performance
Dragonwell, as the cornerstone of Alibaba’s Java applications, supports all Java businesses in Alibaba’s economy, and has accumulated a large number of practices and innovations in business scenarios
Well-built features
Alibaba Dragonwell will provide Java 8 and Java 11 versions for Long Term Support (LTS)
Long-term support
Alibaba provides quarterly updates, Java8 update at least until June 2023, Java11 update at least until June 2024
free
Dragonwell is released with the Alibaba Cloud VM image and is provided to Alibaba Cloud customers for free; developers can also download and use it for free
Scene introduction
Java application basic runtime
The Java application base runtime can be used as an easy replacement for many Java SE releases
High-performance JDK
As the cornerstone of Alibaba's Java applications, Dragonwell supports all Java businesses in Alibaba's economy, has accumulated a lot of practical experience in business scenarios, and at the same time provides new choices for global Java developers
project address
github address: https://github.com/alibaba/dragonwell8