# Open Liberty

Lightweight Java application server runtime for building and running cloud-native Java microservices and Jakarta EE applications.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/open-liberty/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-30
Listed since: 2026-10-30

## Record

### Links

- home: https://openliberty.io
- repository: https://github.com/OpenLiberty/open-liberty
- docs: https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/
- x: https://twitter.com/OpenLibertyIO
- forum: https://groups.io/g/openliberty

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: IBM Corp.
- maintainerType: company
- parent: IBM
- firstRelease: 2017
- hqCountry: US

### Kind

- category: web-server, framework
- hosting: java
- language: java
- runtime: jvm
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: yes
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: unknown
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: unknown
- installMethod: maven

### License

- licenseModel: unknown
- license: EPL-2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: unknown
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-19

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 1272
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 236
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://openliberty.io/ (read 2026-10-30)
- urls: https://github.com/OpenLiberty/open-liberty (read 2026-10-30)
- urls: https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/ (read 2026-10-30)
- maintainer: https://openliberty.io/about/ (read 2026-10-30)
- maintainerType: https://openliberty.io/about/ (read 2026-10-30)
- parent: https://openliberty.io/about/ (read 2026-10-30)
- hqCountry: https://www.ibm.com/privacy/ (read 2026-10-30)
- firstRelease: https://github.com/OpenLiberty/open-liberty/releases/tag/17.0.0.3 (read 2026-10-30)
- category: https://openliberty.io/ (read 2026-10-30)
- category: https://github.com/OpenLiberty/open-liberty (read 2026-10-30)
- language: https://github.com/OpenLiberty/open-liberty (read 2026-10-30)
- runtime: https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/java-se.html (read 2026-10-30)
- runsAs: https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/reference/command/server-start.html (read 2026-10-30)
- installMethod: https://openliberty.io/downloads/ (read 2026-10-30)
- installMethod: https://openliberty.io/downloads/ (read 2026-10-30)
- installMethod: https://openliberty.io/downloads/ (read 2026-10-30)
- installMethod: https://github.com/OpenLiberty/open-liberty (read 2026-10-30)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/OpenLiberty/open-liberty/releases/tag/gm-26.0.0.10 (read 2026-10-30)
- license: https://github.com/OpenLiberty/open-liberty (read 2026-10-30)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/OpenLiberty/open-liberty (read 2026-10-30)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/OpenLiberty/open-liberty/contributors (read 2026-10-30)
- adminUi: https://openliberty.io/docs/latest/admin-center.html (read 2026-10-30)

## Notes

Open Liberty is a Java application server runtime from IBM for building and running cloud-native Java microservices and Jakarta EE applications. It runs on a Java SE runtime, and the server is started by a command that runs it as a background process. Applications and the Liberty runtime are set up through the Maven or Gradle plugins, a zip download or a Docker image.

The project is an IBM open source project, and its copyright line gives IBM Corp. as the owner.

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