Project Portola would port the JDK to the security-focused, lightweight Linux distribution
Alpine Linux, a security-focused lightweight distribution of the platform, may get its own Java port. Alpine is popular with the Docker container developers , so a Java port could pave the way to making Java containers very small.
A proposal floated this week on an OpenJDK mailing list calls for porting the JDK (Java Development Kit), including the Java Runtime Environment, Java compiler and APIs, to both the distribution and the musl C standard library, which is supported by Alpine Linux. The key focus here is musl; Java has previously been ported to the standard glibc library, which you can install in Alpine, but the standard Alpine release switched two years ago to musl because it’s much faster and more compact
The Portola porting effort would be led by Mikael Vidstedt, a JDK 9 committer at Oracle.
