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		grishka 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Giving up upstream-ing my patches and feel free to... OpenJDK is the "default" implementation of Java and it's maintained by Oracle. Beyond that, there exists at least OpenJ9, which is a completely independent implementation, maintained by Eclipse Foundation.

lmz 4 days ago [–]

Isn't OpenJ9 "just" the VM and not the class library? Also it's IBM-backed so it's more a case of pick your poison there.

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