Like a Google that has decided to produce its own version of Java to escape the Oracle Caudine Forks, SAP released a "friendly" fork of the open source version of Java, called SapMachine. The Java project, which began in December 2017, exploits the downstream version of OpenJDK - the open source version of Java - maintained by the publisher. Customers and partners of the software giant can use it to run their applications.
Although another Java distribution that could compete with other flights of companies such as those offered by Oracle, IBM, SAP maintains that it does not seek to divide the Java community. "We want to emphasize that this is clearly a friendly fork . SAP is committed to ensuring the continued success of the Java platform, "wrote the publisher. The latter further emphasized that he is part of the executive committee of the JCP (Java Community Process) and has contributed to OpenJDK .The Java Compatibilty Kit passed successfully for SapMachine
The versions of SapMachine align with those of OpenJDK . To know currently in production SapMachine 11 Long Term Support before a release of SapMachine 12, an implementation of the Java Development Kit ( JDK ) 12, expected on March 19th. Then, work will start on SapMachine 13. SapMachine is supported on Windows, Linux and MacOS. Docker images are available for most versions. All of these have successfully passed the Java Compatibilty Kit, to certify compatibility with OpenJDK . A from jdk12, SAP will maintain active branches of SapMachine for multiple Java versions. The production version of SapMachine is available from SAP .