[arch-general] How to have multiple JDKs parallel?

[Guus Snijders]

Op ma 17 sep. 2018 12:04 schreef Olli <olli at suruatoel.xyz>:

> On 17.09.18 09:31, Peter Nabbefeld wrote:
> > There has ever been an EOL for older JDKs. But sometimes You're bound
> > to a specific JDK version in Your working environment, so IMO always
> > replacing is a bad strategy. The problem is, in larger companies it
> > sometimes takes some weeks or even months until some software is
> > allowed to be upgraded. And I'd at least want to check which features
> > are available in which JDK - or which bugs are present.
>
> Well, tell the OpenJDK/Oracle people, they are the ones who came up with
> this release cycle. It has nothing to do with Arch Linux.
>

Actually, it's just a user question on how to handle multiple pkg versions.
And that is Arch(user) specific ;).

One option would be to use custom pkg's, another (somewhat easy) method
would be to create a virtual machine for every java version.

In the VM case, add some shared storage and have fun. Just remember to
freeze at least the java pkg in those vm's...


Mvg, Guus Snijders