Comment by hintymad

2 months ago

This works if all you need is OpenJDK. Per the article, sdkman allows one to install and switch between different versions and brands of JDKs.

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lmm  2 months ago

> Per the article, sdkman allows one to install and switch between different versions and brands of JDKs.

OK but what benefit does that give? I hope we're not back to the bad old days of different apps needing different brands of JDK to run on.

  • hddherman  2 months ago

    It's really handy for switching between projects that are on different Java versions, plus tools like IntelliJ pick up on the correct version via the SDKMAN! configuration as well.

    • lmm  2 months ago

      OK but again what's the use case for that? Can you not just use a new version of Java for all your projects, at most setting -source/-target in your project configuration? Certainly in the old days it was always backwards compatible, at least enough that you could develop under a current version and maybe just have a CI job to check that your code still worked on old versions.

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