Red Hat and Java

Eclipse Adoptium

Red Hat is a founding strategic member of the Adoptium Working Group to promote and support high-quality, TCK-certified runtimes and associated technology. Red Hat is also the second largest contributor to OpenJDK.

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• Red Hat joins the Eclipse Adoptium Working Group

Cryostat

Java Flight recorder (JFR) for securely recording Java events from your containerized applications. Start, stop, and dump recordings for further analysis with triggers on Kubernetes.

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• Announcing Cryostat 3.0
• Getting started with Cryostat
• Introducing the Cryostat Agent

Reliable garbage collection in JDK 17

Red Hat developed and has been contributing to the Shenandoah garbage collector since 2013. Shenandoah GC implements concurrent heap evacuation, which cleans heaps without stopping the application.

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• Shenandoah in OpenJDK 17: Sub-millisecond GC pauses
• Shenandoah GC in JDK 13, Part 1: Load reference barriers

Jakarta EE

Red Hat is one of the largest contributors to the Java EE specification. Red Hat helped orchestrate the transition to the Eclipse foundation to evolve the platform for meeting the needs of modern workloads.

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• Why Java is so hot right now

Hibernate

Red Hat developed and maintains the Hibernate framework for mapping an object-oriented domain model to a relational database.

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• Try a quick start
• Using Hibernate ORM and JPA

WildFly

Red Hat developed and maintains the open source WildFly (JBoss EAP) app server project supported on various platforms.

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• Deploy JBoss EAP using Azure Marketplace
• Automate and Deploy a JBoss EAP Cluster with Ansible

Spring Boot

Red Hat offers support and maintenance cycles for major versions of Spring Boot, including support for Spring applications on OpenShift.

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• How to deploy Spring Boot applications on Kubernetes

Quarkus

Quarkus is a full-stack, Kubernetes-native Java framework made for Java virtual machines (JVMs) and native compilation. Quarkus is designed to work with popular Java standards, frameworks, and libraries including Eclipse MicroProfile and Spring, Apache Kafka, and more.

MicroProfile

Red Hat is a founding member of the MicroProfile community project, an open forum dedicated to optimizing Enterprise Java for a microservices architecture and enabling application portability across runtimes.

GraalVM

GraalVM is a JVM and Java Development Kit (JDK) based on HotSpot/OpenJDK that improves application performance and efficiency. Red Hat's contributions to the GraalVM community include Mandrel, a downstream distribution that supports native image compilation and Open JDK.