Amazon Web Services joined the Java Community Process to expand its open source initiatives, support Java developers using its platform, and join the Java Community Process.
The JCP is described as “the mechanism to develop standard technical specifications for Java technology.”
The cloud giant has made significant investments in open-source Java development and last year opened sourced Amazon Correto. The company’s new offering, which was previewed last November by the company, is described as “a no cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution (OpenJDK) of the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK).
AWS announced last week that it will continue to support open-source Java development.
“We are increasing our investment in OpenJDK,” stated Yishai Galatzer, a member of the AWS Developer Tools group. “At OSCON 2019, in Portland, Oregon we released our first major standalone feature, Amazon Corretto Crypto Provider. This enables us to accelerate cryptographic operations for all OpenJDK Distributions.
“Today, we are pleased to announce that Amazon has joined Java Community Process. This is the Java platform standards organisation — the JCP holds the repository for Java specifications. We are thrilled to be able to contribute more to the Java and Open Source communities. We look forward to the next set of contributions!
He also took the time review other ventures of the company into open-source Java, such as contributing patches to OpenJDK and helping to maintain the OpenJDK 8/11 update projects. He also joined the Java Vulnerability Group to fix security problems in JDKs 8-11 before they are publicly disclosed.
