“I think that really that growth year-over-year indicates the traction that it is getting amongst developers and enterprises that are looking for a robust, secure, high quality Java runtime,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation.Įclipse Temurin is now the default Java option in GitHub Actions, which may be contributing to increased uptake as well. Īccording to the Eclipse Foundation and the Adoptium Working Group, in February 2023 there were over 12.3 million downloads of the Eclipse Temurin binaries, which is more than double what it had been the same time the previous year.

The build provided by the Adoptium project is called Eclipse Temurin. There are many alternatives - both commercial and open-source - to the standard Oracle distribution, and in 2017, the Adoptium project (at the time it was called AdoptOpenJDK) was formed to promote high-quality builds of OpenJDK. In fact, a 2022 New Relic survey found that Oracle’s share of the Java market had dropped from 75% in 2020 to 35% in 2022. The move away from Oracle’s distribution has been quite significant.

Open-source Java has long been an important part of the Java ecosystem, but over the past few years more and more companies are moving from commercial distributions to open-source ones.

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