dragonwell-project/dragonwell8
Alibaba Dragonwell8 JDK observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
93/100
- Activity 96
- Release rhythm 84
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 22
- age_days: 2736
- days_rel: 110
- days_push: 26
- n_releases_24m: 14
Adoption not part of the score
4317 stars · 496 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Alibaba Dragonwell8 is a downstream, production-hardened distribution of OpenJDK 8 (LTS) optimized for large-scale online e-commerce, financial, and logistics workloads. It is a GPL-2.0 'friendly fork' of OpenJDK maintained by Alibaba, currently supporting Linux/x86_64.
Use cases
- run Java 8 applications on a free, long-term-supported OpenJDK build
- find a JDK distribution tuned for high-scale server workloads
- install a Java 8 runtime via YUM on Alibaba Cloud Linux or CentOS/RHEL 7
- get extended maintenance and security patches for Java 8 LTS
- migrate from Oracle JDK 8 to an open-source alternative
- use a JDK battle-tested on 100,000+ servers at Alibaba
When to choose
- you need a free, actively maintained Java 8 LTS runtime on Linux x86_64
- you run large-scale distributed Java services and want Alibaba's production optimizations
- you want an OpenJDK-compatible drop-in replacement (just set JAVA_HOME)
- you deploy on Alibaba Cloud Linux 2 or compatible RHEL/CentOS 7 distros
When to avoid
- you need Windows or macOS support, which this release does not provide
- you need Java 11, 17, or newer rather than Java 8
- you prefer to contribute to and track upstream OpenJDK directly
- you need a vendor with formal commercial support SLAs
Facets
application · maturity active
interpreter compiler developer-tools programming-languages developer-tools cloud-computing jvm openjdk jdk java8 lts friendly-fork alibaba linux
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/dragonwell-project/dragonwell8 · fetched 2026-08-28 · 5610296e2d69
- homepage: http://dragonwell-jdk.io · fetched 2026-08-29 · ee80a33880e4
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| dragonwell-project/dragonwell8 | main | 93 |
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