Alternatives to Amazon Corretto
A no-cost OpenJDK distribution from Amazon with long-term support and quarterly security updates. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Amazon Corretto
A no-cost OpenJDK distribution from Amazon with long-term support and quarterly security updates.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Amazon Corretto.
Eclipse Temurin
Free prebuilt OpenJDK Java runtime and development kit binaries from the Eclipse Adoptium project.
Eclipse Temurin is also a free, certified OpenJDK build under the same GPL-2.0 classpath license, but comes from the Eclipse Adoptium project rather than Amazon.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
SDKMAN!
Manages parallel versions of JVM SDKs and build tools.
Apache Maven
A build and dependency management tool for Java projects based on a project object model.
Gradle
An open-source build automation tool for Java, Kotlin and Android projects, with Kotlin and Groovy build scripts.
Kotlin
A concise, multiplatform programming language from JetBrains for backend, Android, web and desktop apps.
Scala
A programming language that combines object-oriented and functional programming, targeting the JVM and web.
Apache NetBeans
An open-source IDE for Java, PHP, JavaScript, HTML and other languages from Apache.
