TravaOpenJDK8 is OpenJDK8 for developers. Since it is based on dcevm and integrated HotswapAgent, it allows advanced hotswap like method-field addition and many more. Trava is a build farm created and maintained by HotswapProjects. Build is transparent as much as possible. dcevm-8 source code is built on Travis and the produced JDK images are bundled with HotswapAgent. Building is exclusively based on modified AdoptOpenJDK scripts.

Download windows/linux/macos binaries, unpack and set JAVA_HOME to it's location (or add it as JDK to your IDE).

Use travaJDK as alternative jdk, do not use option -XXaltjvm=dcevm, since dcevm main JVM in this distribution. For HotswapAgent configuration look at hotswapagent.org If you are using dcevm as alternative JVM via -XXaltjvm=dcevm, just extract libjvm.so from travaJDK package and move it to standard JVM directory. Graphical installation is not supported by travaJDK now.

It is not necessary to use supplied binaries, you can build own binaries. It is simple and it can be done in several clicks:

• Fork this repository
• Create user account on Travis
• Change the deploy part in .travis.yml to upload the result to your repository
• Create tagged commit and wait for Travis to build your binaries!

In case a new branch is created in source repository, then modify --branch argument to new branch.

• If this repository has some updates since last tagged, then move tag:

    git push origin :refs/tags/${SOURCE_JDK_TAG}
    git tag -fa ${SOURCE_JDK_TAG}
    git push origin master --tags

• Cleanup binaries from Releases/
• Trigger tagged job on Travis (if not triggered automatically)

Let's jdk source repository has new tag of value TAGVAL

• Set variable SOURCE_JDK_TAG= in .tarvis.yml to TAGVAL
• Commit and tag commit with TAGVAL
• Appropriate a new tagged job should be created on Travis automatically