Alibaba Dragonwell8 Quickstart Guide
Document to help the users to get started with the Alibaba Dragonwell 8.
Alibaba Dragonwell is a "friendly fork" under the same licensing terms as the upstream OpenJDK project. Alibaba Dragonwell is available in two editions(starting with 8.12.13):
- Alibaba Dragonwell Standard Edition: OpenJDK upstream based and have more enhancements, including bug-fixing, security patches, tooling support, etc.
- Alibaba Dragonwell Extended Edition: everything in the standard edition, plus: extra customized/significant features optimized for the cloud and widely used in Alibaba's production environment.
Both Alibaba Dragonwell 8 editions pass the comprehensive Eclipse AQAvit quality assurance test suite to provide a stable and high-quality Java engine for your applications.
Alibaba Dragonwell 8 Standard Edition has passed the Java SE 8 Compatibility Test Suite(JCK tests).
The standard edition installer package names provide platform and Java version information in the following formats: Alibaba_Dragonwell_Standard-jdk_<Alibaba Dragonwell level>_<architecture>_<operating system>.<extension>
For example, the Alibaba Dragonwell Standard Edition for Linux on the aarch64 platform, Alibaba Dragonwell version 8.12.13, has the following package name: Alibaba_Dragonwell_Standard_jdk-8.12.13_aarch64_linux.tar.gz
Run the java -version command to check whether you use the java executable from a standard edition. The following example shows the output from standard edition:
openjdk version "1.8.0_345"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (Alibaba Dragonwell Standard Edition 8.12.13) (build 1.8.0_345-b01)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (Alibaba Dragonwell Standard Edition 8.12.13) (build 25.345-b01, mixed mode)
The extended edition installer package names provide platform and Java version information in the following formats: Alibaba_Dragonwell_Extended-jdk_<Alibaba Dragonwell level>_<architecture>_<operating system>.<extension>
For example, the Alibaba Dragonwell Extended Edition for Linux on the aarch64 platform, Alibaba Dragonwell version 8.12.13, has the following package name: Alibaba_Dragonwell_Extended_jdk-8.12.13_aarch64_linux.tar.gz
Run the java -version command to check whether you use the java executable from an extended edition. The following example shows the output from extended edition:
openjdk version "1.8.0_345"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (Alibaba Dragonwell Extended Edition 8.12.13) (build 1.8.0_345-b01)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (Alibaba Dragonwell Extended Edition 8.12.13) (build 25.345-b01, mixed mode)
Navigate to the Alibaba Dragonwell download page, select a version and choose a package from the available platforms.
Release information is available in the Standard Edition Release Notes and Extended Edition Release Notes pages.
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