Microsoft JDK Builds?

[viveksh1]

Since the Microsoft builds of their JDK have now been released and are in preview, will you switch the JDK to those once they are out of the preview phase?

[Eskibear]

We are using AdoptOpenJDK's MSI installer for Windows, and PKG installer for macOS.

Known problems with AdoptOpenJDK are:

• Downloading can be slow and unstable. See Download extremely slow. How about sharing torrents to spare bandwidth? adoptium/temurin-build#1349
• PKG installer requires admin privileges.

It's a good idea to switch to Microsoft builds of OpenJDK if it:

• Has easy-to-use API to fetch metadata, e.g. versions, download links, file hash, etc for different platforms.
• Is faster/easier to download. (compared with AdoptOpenJDK).
• Can be installed per user, e.g. doesn't require admin privileges on Windows.

[viveksh1]

As the Microsoft builds of OpenJDK and the VS Code Java Coding Pack are both from Microsoft, hopefully you can coordinate something out so the Microsoft JDK does not have the issues currently present in the AdoptOpenJDK and contains the features that you would like in the Microsoft builds of OpenJDK. After all, they are still in the preivew phase and the stable version hasn't been released yet.

[viveksh1]

@Eskibear The Microsoft builds of OpenJDK are out of beta, try them out.

[Eskibear]

Thank you for reminding me of it. Related API for metadata is required before we can switch to it. I can only find related discussion here microsoft/openjdk#18