I think your idea has merit. Some other tools can provision JDKs (JBang, SDKMAN) but more ideas and competition in the space could help.
I think the automatic discovery by the toolchains plugin itself without an explicit toolchains.xml file still has some rough edges as well. On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM Philip <philip.pi...@protonmail.com.invalid> wrote: > Hello people, > > I have been trying out the maven toolchains plugin and wanted to see if it > was possible to automatically download JDKs fitting the configured > properties in my pom.xml. > Gradle's foojay-resolver plugin already does this using the Foojay Disco > API (https://github.com/gradle/foojay-toolchains). > > What do you think about this idea? > > Philip
