OpenJDK availability for Windows OS [closed]

Answer 1

Only OpenJDK 7. OpenJDK6 is basically the same code base as SUN's version, that's why it redirects you to the official Oracle site.

Answer 2

For Java 12 onwards, official General-Availability (GA) and Early-Access (EA) Windows 64-bit builds of the OpenJDK (GPL2 + Classpath Exception) from Oracle are available as tar.gz/zip from the JDK website.

If you prefer an installer, there are several distributions. There is a public Google Doc and Blog post by the Java Champions community which lists the best-supported OpenJDK distributions. Currently, these are:

• AdoptOpenJDK, which also has a version with OpenJ9 instead of Hotspot as its VM (backed by IBM and jClarity)
• Amazon Corretto
• Liberica from Bellsoft
• Red Hat OpenJDK
• SAPMachine (backed by SAP)
• Zulu Community (backed by Azul Systems)

Answer 3

You can go to AdoptOpenJDK to download your binaries for all platforms provided by a great community.

Answer 4

Found all the windows binaries here :

https://github.com/ojdkbuild/ojdkbuild

These Windows binaries are built to keep them as close as possible in behaviour to java-x-openjdk CentOS packages.

Answer 5

An interesting alternative with long term support is Corretto. It was anounced by James Gosling on DevOXX recently. It is a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK). Corretto comes with long-term support that will include performance enhancements and security fixes. Currently it provides Java Versions 8 and 11 (12 soon) and you can download binaries for all major platforms

• Linux
• Microsoft Windows
• macOS
• Docker

And the second interesting alternative is Dragonwell provided by Alibaba. It is a friendly fork but they want to upstream their changes into the openjdk repo regularily... They currently offer Java8 but the have interesting things like a backported Flight Recorder (from 11 to 8) ...

And thirdly as already mentioned by others the adoptOpenJDK initivative is also worth looking at.