Comment by pragmatick

12 hours ago

I found the documentation confusing and as so often with general-approach tools too overwhelming for what I'm trying to do. sdkman works fine for what I need it for and usually you only need one instance of gradle and maven installed.

And sdkman is written in rust and only needs curl, zip and unzip, no JVM.

Ah, it was written in Groovy last time I looked at it I believe. In any case here’s how to install a default java:

`mise ls-remote java` to show all vendors and versions, or just `mise latest java@temurin` (or any other vendor) to get the latest version string

`mise use -g java@<version>` to install it and set it as a default