A way to install a JDK from a directory

[dkowis]

This is a bit tougher, but with jenv, I could install a JDK, and do something like jenv add /path/to/jdk and it would determine the major, minor and patch versions from the output of java -version in that directory.

It was really handy to be able to add a JDK, especially the ones from oracle. I'm not sure how this would work, but it'd be useful. Found myself missing this functionality yesterday.

[dkowis]

Well, only if the asdf java plugin knew where to find said java SDK. Right?

I'd have to have some way of adding it to the plugin first.

[augustobmoura]

You can symlink the custom jdk to the $ASDF_DIR/installs/java and reshim and it will work fine. Just ln -s {path_to_jdk} "$ASDF_DIR/installs/java/{custom_jdk_name}" and then asdf reshim java

[delgurth]

On MacOS make sure you include the /Contents/Home to the path, so for example:

ln -s /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_80.jdk/Contents/Home ~/.asdf/installs/java/oracle-1.7.0
asdf reshim java

This will make it possible to do:

asdf local java oracle-1.7.0
asdf which java

/Users/wessel/.asdf/installs/java/oracle-1.7.0/bin/java

java -version

java version "1.7.0_80"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_80-b15)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.80-b11, mixed mode)

[bric3]

Hi just noticed (again) this issue,

For reference, here's a use case that might be useful. And if download was handled by asdf-java it would allow to skip the download step.

Here's the verbatim comment from #92:

Hi, just chiming in, currently I'm using specific JDK builds and I'm doing the following. This would be nice if the add a local version could be extended to adding a remote version too.

$ curl -sLO https://download.java.net/java/early_access/loom/4/openjdk-17-loom+4-174_osx-x64_bin.tar.gz
$ mkdir -p openjdk-17-loom+4-174; tar --strip-components=4 -C openjdk-17-loom+4-174/ -xf openjdk-17-loom+4-174_osx-x64_bin.tar.gz jdk-17.jdk/Contents/Home
$ asdf reshim java

$ curl -sLO https://download.java.net/java/early_access/lanai/3/openjdk-17-lanai+3-133_osx-x64_bin.tar.gz
$ mkdir -p openjdk-17-lanai+3-133; tar --strip-components=4 -C openjdk-17-lanai+3-133/ -xf openjdk-17-lanai+3-133_osx-x64_bin.tar.gz jdk-17.jdk/Contents/Home
$ asdf reshim java