What Is the New Adoptium Marketplace and How It Guarantees High‑Quality Java Binaries?

The Eclipse Foundation is introducing an online digital marketplace called the Adoptium Marketplace , where developers can find standard, high‑quality Java binary files.

This marketplace will provide Java binaries that have passed the Java SE Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK) certification and adhere to the AQAvit quality assurance standards, which include performance and scalability testing.

All binaries are based on OpenJDK and are produced in collaboration with the Adoptium working group. AQAvit adds performance and scalability options to the TCK compatibility tests.

"Creating this market offers millions of developers, researchers, and organizations a simple way to ensure high‑performance, enterprise‑grade, cross‑platform binaries that are AQAvit‑verified and TCK‑certified are widely used across the Java ecosystem," the Eclipse Foundation explained.

The Adoptium working group is backed by major IT companies such as Alibaba Cloud, Azul, Huawei, IBM, iJUG, Karakun AG, Microsoft, New Relic, and Red Hat, aiming to provide a fully compatible, high‑quality Java runtime distribution based on OpenJDK source code.

The Eclipse Foundation notes that while the number of OpenJDK‑based runtime distributions has exploded in recent years, not all meet the high‑quality standards set by Eclipse.

The Adoptium project hosts a website and API called “marketplace,” where members can promote Java SE runtimes that meet specific quality assurance criteria.

Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, added that the marketplace provides a vendor‑neutral home for anyone to easily find extensively tested Java SE compatible binaries ready for cloud‑native and enterprise deployment.

Notably, Oracle and its Java development team, as well as major Java distribution providers, are not part of this working group. Oracle has been invited but has declined to join.

According to a recent New Relic report, Oracle’s Java market share has fallen from 75% in 2020 to 34.48% this year.

Huawei announced it will list its ARM‑optimized OpenJDK distribution, BiSheng, on the new marketplace.