Re:Preview of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK
by soapdog on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @11:47AM
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I don't know about other vendors but as far as I can tell, Microsoft is the only vendor providing an aarch64 build of OpenJDK for Windows thus making it available to all those cute Windows on ARM machines.
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AFAIK redhat took over the maintenance of java for the releases that are not anymore provided by oracle:
https://developers.redhat.com/products/openjdk/download
I do not know why microsoft dupplicates this effort.
Re:Preview of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK
by pritambarhate on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @12:12PM
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Most likely because it's of strategic importance to them and they don't want to depend on a third party for a critical piece of their infrastructure.
> I do not know why microsoft dupplicates this effort.
Why do you say they are duplicating efforts?
The builds on the RedHat page are for: x86 (32-bit), x64 (64-bit x86) but any mention of aarch64, which is what Microsoft has been working on with Azul Systems, is conspicuously missing.
(aarch64 or ARM64 is the 64-bit extension of the ARM architecture.)
Re:Preview of Microsoft Build of OpenJDK
by xeeeeeeeeeeenu on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @01:47PM
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There are many other OpenJDK vendors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK#OpenJDK_builds