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OpenJDK (Open Java Development Kit) is a free and open-source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE). [2] It is the result of an effort Sun Microsystems began in 2006, four years before the company was acquired by Oracle Corporation .
Free GPL version 2 or later, with the "libgcc exception" [3] GraalVM: Oracle: May 2019 GraalVM for JDK 22.0.1 [4] 16 April 2024; 8 months ago () Free GPL version 2 only HotSpot, OpenJDK edition Sun Microsystems, Oracle: 27 April 1999 jdk-16 16 March 2021 Free GPL version 2 only HotSpot, Oracle JDK edition Sun Microsystems, Oracle: 27 April 1999
This version introduced a new versioning system for the Java language, although the old versioning system continued to be used for developer libraries: Both version numbers "1.5.0" and "5.0" are used to identify this release of the Java 2 Platform Standard Edition. Version "5.0" is the product version, while "1.5.0" is the developer version.
Free Java implementations are software projects that implement Oracle's Java technologies and are distributed under free software licences, making them free software. Sun released most of its Java source code as free software in May 2007, so it can now almost be considered a free Java implementation. [ 1 ]
The Java Development Kit (JDK) is a distribution of Java technology by Oracle Corporation.It implements the Java Language Specification (JLS) and the Java Virtual Machine Specification (JVMS) and provides the Standard Edition (SE) of the Java Application Programming Interface (API).
In the meantime, a third-party project called IcedTea created a completely free and highly usable JDK by replacing encumbered code with either stubs or code from GNU Classpath. However OpenJDK has since become buildable without the encumbered parts (from OpenJDK 6 b10 [93]) and has become the default runtime environment for most Linux ...
Java version overview Version Type Class file format version [1] Release date End of public updates (free) End of extended support (paid) JDK 1.0: 45 [2] 23rd January 1996: May 1996 — JDK 1.1: 45: 18th February 1997: October 2002 — J2SE 1.2: 46: 4th December 1998
Free distributions like Fedora can't depend on proprietary tools in order to build packages, so the IcedTea project had to make it possible to compile the code using free software. When this was done, the resulting IcedTea version of OpenJDK could be used to compile itself, thus escaping the need to use non-Free software for future compiling.