OpenJDK availability for Windows OS [closed]

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You may find OpenJDK 6 and 7 binaries for Windows in openjdk-unofficial-builds github project.

Update: OpenJDK 8 and 11 LTS binaries for Windows x86_64 can be found in ojdkbuild github project.

Disclaimer: I've built them myself.

Update (2019): OpenJDK Updates Project Builds for 8 and 11 are available now.

In case you are still looking for a Windows build of OpenJDK, Azul Systems launched the Zulu product line last fall. The Zulu distribution of OpenJDK is built and tested on Windows and Linux. We posted the OpenJDK 8 version this week, though OpenJDK 7 and 6 are both available too. The following URL leads to you free downloads, the Zulu community forum, and other details: http://www.azulsystems.com/products/zulu These are binary downloads, so you do not need to build OpenJDK from scratch to use them.

I can attest that building OpenJDK 6 for Windows was not a trivial exercise. Of the six different platforms we've built (OpenJDK6, OpenJDK7, and OpenJDK8, each for Windows and Linux) for x64 so far, the Windows OpenJDK6 build took by far the most effort to wring out items that didn't work on Windows, or would not pass the Technical Compatibility Kit test protocol for Java SE 6 "as is."

Disclaimer: I am the Product Manager for Zulu. You can review my Zulu release notices here: https://support.azulsystems.com/hc/communities/public/topics/200063190-Zulu-Releases I hope this helps.

For Java 12 onwards, official General-Availability (GA) and Early-Access (EA) Windows 64-bit builds of the OpenJDK (GPL2 + Classpath Exception) from Oracle are available as tar.gz/zip from the JDK website.

If you prefer an installer, there are several distributions. There is a public Google Doc and Blog post by the Java Champions community which lists the best-supported OpenJDK distributions. Currently, these are:

• AdoptOpenJDK has been superseded by Adoptium/Temurin
• Adoptium Temurin
• Amazon Corretto
• IBM Semeru (with OpenJ9 JVM)
• Liberica from Bellsoft
• Microsoft Build of OpenJDK
• OpenLogic OpenJDK
• Red Hat OpenJDK
• SAPMachine (backed by SAP)
• Zulu Community (backed by Azul Systems)

I recently came across this site: https://adoptopenjdk.net/

Seems reliable to me. Haven't tried myself but surely will give it a try.

License:

License(s) Build scripts and other code to produce the binaries, the website and other build infrastructure are licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0. OpenJDK code itself is licensed under GPL v2 with Classpath Exception.

EDIT: I was also delighted to learn that AdoptOpenJDK MSI installer (JDK and JRE) now comes with IcedTeaWeb, which is a replacement for Oracle WebStart - simple installer with almost 'next-next-next-finish' and the JWS applications works like they used to.