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Jenv - same java version but with prefix

When I run jenv versions, it shows below options

  11.0
  11.0.21
  17.0
  17.0.9
  21.0
  21.0.1
  zulu64-11.0.21
  zulu64-17.0.9
  zulu64-21.0.1

What's the difference between 11.0.21 and zulu64-11.0.21 and which one should I choose?

The latter has the prefix zulu64- whereas former doesn't have any prefix.

Solution

  • This seems to be the way Jenv works. It shows the exact version (example 17.0.9), the major version in case you want to just select a major only (example 17.0). Additionally it adds to the list the version with the vendor prefix (example zulu64-17.0.9). So a single JDK install adds 3 times to the list.

    This is all to give the user flexibility to select versions in different ways considering they may have multiple parallel installations from different vendors/versions.

    Reference: https://github.com/jenv/jenv/issues/136