Question regarding GitHub Actions pipeline definition

[Okeanos]

I had a look at the pipeline definition and I am somewhat confused at the fact that especially the Java 1.6 build works as expected.

I would have expected a actions/setup-java@v3 task with the following inputs in place of what currently exists:

- name: Set up JDK
  uses: actions/setup-java@v3
  with:
    distribution: zulu
    java-version: 6

As far as I can currently tell no setup-java distribution vendor offers 1.6 as version. The only Java 6 (1.6) version available I could find is offered by Azul via Zulu. Also, the selected runners of type ubuntu-latest (currently at 20.04 also doesn't include a Java 1.6/6 version).

I can see that the JDK for 1.6/6 is part of the hosted tool cache, though.

What am I missing?

I am also wondering whether this would be an appropriate use case for Maven Toolchains so that Maven could be used to build the project instead of directly invoking the Java Compiler.

[stleary]

@Okeanos I am not sure, but will take a look when time permits. There are no plans to make changes to the build pipeline at this time.

[stleary]

Closed due to lack of activity.