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Feature Request: Shim a JDK

Open brunoborges opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

As explained in this issue, the Oracle JDK installers for Windows (and possibly for macOS too) now shims only 4 binaries in a folder called java_home and uses such directory as the bin that is appended to PATH.

An interesting feature for JDKMon is to offer the user an option to clean PATH and JAVA_HOME, and then allow the user to select which JDK they actually want, and then shim the binaries, append the folder containing the shims in PATH, and point JAVA_HOME to that particular JDK only.

This would potentially take JDKMon to the next level as a cross-platform JDK Switcher.

brunoborges avatar Dec 08 '21 18:12 brunoborges

I really like that idea 👍🏻 Will take a look at that tomorrow.

HanSolo avatar Dec 08 '21 19:12 HanSolo