Java JVM and JDK

Open-source Java projects categorized as JVM and JDK

Top 4 Java JVM and JDK Projects

  • Graal

    GraalVM compiles Java applications into native executables that start instantly, scale fast, and use fewer compute resources 🚀

  • Project mention: Java 23: The New Features Are Officially Announced | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-17

    Contrary to what vocal Kotlin advocates might believe, Kotlin only matters on Android, and that is thanks to Google pushing it no matter what.

    https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-top-programming-languages-2023

    https://snyk.io/reports/jvm-ecosystem-report-2021/

    And even so, they had to conceed Android and Kotlin on their own, without the Java ecosystem aren't really much useful, thus ART is now updatable via Play Store, and currently supports OpenJDK 17 LTS on Android 12 and later devices.

    As for your question regarding numbers, mostly Java 74.6%, C++ 13.7%, on the OpenJDK, other JVM implementations differ, e.g. GraalVM is mostly Java 91.8%, C 3.6%.

    https://github.com/openjdk/jdk

    https://github.com/oracle/graal

    Two examples from many others, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines

  • Dragonwell8

    Alibaba Dragonwell8 JDK

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • OpenJ9

    Eclipse OpenJ9: A Java Virtual Machine for OpenJDK that's optimized for small footprint, fast start-up, and high throughput. Builds on Eclipse OMR (https://github.com/eclipse/omr) and combines with the Extensions for OpenJDK for OpenJ9 repo.

  • SAP Machine

    An OpenJDK release maintained and supported by SAP

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source JVM and JDK projects in Java? This list will help you:

Project Stars
1 Graal 19,818
2 Dragonwell8 4,105
3 OpenJ9 3,218
4 SAP Machine 487

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