Over the years, more than a billion lines of Java code have been written in Alibaba. While adopting OpenJDK to run these applications, we have found a need to customize it specifically for large-scale Java application deployments. Our customization has been well-tested in our environment. We are now contributing some of our work into the Java community. Alibaba Dragonwell, as a downstream version of OpenJDK, is the in-house OpenJDK implementation at Alibaba. It is optimized for online e-commerce, financial and logistics applications running on 100,000+ servers. Alibaba Dragonwell is the engine that runs these distributed Java applications in extreme scaling.

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  • Alibaba Dragonwell is a downstream version of OpenJDK and is a reliable alternative to OpenJDK in the production environment
  • OpenJDK upstream based and have more enhancements, including bug-fixing, security patches, tooling support, etc.
  • Customized/significant features optimized for the cloud and widely used in Alibaba's production environment
  • Both editions pass the Eclipse AQAvit quality assurance test suite to provide a stable and high-quality Java engine for your applications
  • Alibaba Dragonwell includes the latest bug-fixing and secutiry patches from upstream, and ships extra features widely used in Alibaba's production environment
  • As the engine of Alibaba's Java application, Dragonwell supports all Java businesses in Alibaba economy

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2023-08-01