sdkman-ui

This project aims to offer a Graphical User Interface for SDKMAN.

[!NOTE]
Primary focus for now is to create a UI for windows, other OS's will come later. Also only Java and Maven candidates are available in the first version, other candidates will be added later.

Screenshots

Requirements

tar, unzip and zip should be present on the system. You can install them with your favourite package manager on *inx systems.

Windows:

Zip and unzip are bundled with the application, if they are on the path then skdman-ui will use those if not then it will use the bundled versions:

• tar: no need for tar as it is not used on windows
• zip: https://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/zip.htm or direct download
• unzip: https://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/unzip.htm or direct download

Available platforms

Some platforms are not yet available as they are not yet setup and/or tested.

Early access builds can be found here: releases/tag/early-access

Install instructions

Windows

Download the latest version and extract the zip, then run the sdkman-ui.exe. And follow on screen instructions. Then it should be available from the commandline as sdkui.

Also see the following video

Symlinks

Most versions of Windows do not allow the creation on symlinks by default, SDKMAN UI will work around that by using copy, however this is a lot slower. You can enable development mode in windows see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/get-started/enable-your-device-for-development for more information.

build steps:

• sdk u java 22.1.0.1.r17-gln or manually install from https://github.com/gluonhq/graal/releases
• export GRAALVM_HOME=$JAVA_HOME
• ./mvnw clean install -DskipTests

Native:

To update native reflections gluonfx:runagent ./mvnw gluonfx:build -f sdkman-ui

Jlink:

-./mvnw javafx:jlink -f sdkman-ui

run with: ./sdkman-ui/target/sdkmanui/bin/launcher

Run as developer:

Run the following class: io.github.jagodevreede.sdkmanui.Main

Design decisions

See DESIGN_DECISIONS.md