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Alibaba Dragonwell8 Quickstart Guide

sanhong edited this page Aug 18, 2022 · 13 revisions

Document to help the users to get started with the Alibaba Dragonwell.

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 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).

Component versions

Standard Edition

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)

Extended Edition

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 a 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)

Downloading packages

Navigate to the Alibaba Dragonwell download page, select a version and choose a package from the available platforms.

Release information

Release information is available in the Standard Edition Release Notes and Extended Edition Release Notes pages.

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