In Oracle JDK), and replace encumbered third party components with Open source all pieces of the Oracle JDK except those that we considerĬommercial features such as JRockit Mission Control (not yet available Rhino, and a few bits and pieces here and there, like additionalĭocumentation or third party fonts. Graphics rasterizer, some open source third party components, like WebStart, as well as some closed source third party components like a Which includes Oracle's implementation of the Java Plugin and Java On OpenJDK 7 by adding just a couple of pieces, like the deployment code, Repository, and the code you use to build the Oracle JDK?Ī: It is very close - our build process for Oracle JDK releases builds Q: What is the difference between the source code found in the OpenJDK There's a more detailed answer from 2012 on difference between JVM, JDK, JRE & OpenJDK, which links to an Oracle blog post: Moreover, OpenJDK was selected to be the reference implementation for Java 7 and is maintained by Oracle engineers. The OpenJDK project is mostly based on HotSpot source code donated by Sun.