AdoptOpenJDK has a simple mission.  We are all about delivering high quality, open binaries for OpenJDK-based technology. Achieving that simple mission requires a series of interesting decisions and actions that must be taken. Read more

Exactly a year ago today, Tim Ellison sent me a note.  He had just watched a presentation I had recorded, talking about the work my team had started to vastly 'simplify Java testing'. Read more

I recently joined the AdoptOpenJDK community, and chose to focus on helping to maintain the build and test machines and the automation used to set up and maintain them. Read more

Adding third party application tests into the automated testing at AdoptOpenJDK is easier now than it has ever been! Read more

Wow! Hard to believe how much progress has been made since I first posted a mission statement of sorts… (in Part 1: Testing Java: Let Me… Read more

We are pleased to announce the availability of the Adopt OpenJDK multi-arch docker images! Read more

Adding zOS to a Jenkins server as an ssh agent can be a difficult task, that's why I've documented the steps that we were required follow to add our zOS machines to Jenkins. Read more

When it comes to any community driven open source project, funding is always the limiting factor. There is no cheap way to get machines hosted for you in the cloud so it's essential that you approach as many companies as you can and try and build up sponsorship deals. Read more

AdoptOpenJDK binaries for AIX machines are available for download. Read more

Recently, I had the good fortune to speak (fondly!) about some excellent open-source projects that I participate in... AdoptOpenJDK, Eclipse OpenJ9 and Eclipse OMR.  Across those three projects, we are trying to simplify the activity of testing. Read more