Disco API - OpenJDK distributions as a service

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Disco API at foojay.io provides a vendor-neutral discovery service for OpenJDK builds across many distributions and versions, exposing simple endpoints (distribution, major, packages) and returning platform, archive, support and TCK info; it maintains 42,000 packages and polls every six hours to refresh links. Tools built on it include CLI and IDE plugins, browser extensions, a JDKmon tray updater, and a GitHub Action; the API returns download URLs only (no installers).

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:32How to get OpenJDK
3. 2:38Disco API
4. 3:52Distribution endpoint
5. 4:34Packages endpoint
6. 6:26Browser plugins
7. 7:01Disco CLI
8. 9:09DiscoMon
9. 12:06Who uses Disco API

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