

For users running Alibaba Cloud Linux 2 OS, you should be able to install Alibaba Dragonwell by simply running: sudo yum install -y java-1.8.0-alibaba-dragonwell.Uncompress the package to the installation directory.Īlibaba Dragonwell is officially supported and maintained in Alibaba Cloud Linux 2 (Aliyun Linux 2) YUM repository, and this repo should be also compatible with Aliyun Linux 17.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and CentOS 7.You may download a pre-built Alibaba Dragonwell JDK from its GitHub page:.Installation Option 1, Download and install pre-built Alibaba Dragonwell Using Alibaba DragonwellĪlibaba Dragonwell JDK currently supports Linux/x86_64 platform only. Alibaba is committed to collaborate closely with OpenJDK community and intends to bring as many customized features as possible from Alibaba Dragonwell to the upstream. The current release supports Linux/x86_64 platform only.Īlibaba Dragonwell is clearly a "friendly fork" under the same licensing terms as the upstream OpenJDK project. Alibaba Dragonwell is the engine that runs these distributed Java applications in extreme scaling. Many applications are written in Java and many our Java developers have written more than one billion lines of Java code.Īlibaba Dragonwell, as a downstream version of OpenJDK, is the in-house OpenJDK implementation at Alibaba optimized for online e-commerce, financial, logistics applications running on 100,000+ servers. Over the years, Java has proliferated in Alibaba. Alibaba Dragonwell8 Extended Edition Release NotesĪlibaba Dragonwell8 Standard Edition Release Notes Introduction
