[EXTERNAL] Re: GitHub workflows using setup-java action instead of hardcoded URLs

[Alan Bateman]

On 12/07/2022 10:23, George Adams wrote:
>
> H David,
>
> The key difference is that we wouldn’t nee to keep updating the full 
> version number/checksum. We could ofcourse use the 
> oracle-actions/setup-java 
> <https://github.com/oracle-actions/setup-java> and do something like 
> this:   - name: 'Set up latest Oracle JDK 18'
>
>     uses: oracle-actions/setup-java at v1
>
>     with:
>
>       website: oracle.com
>
>       release: 18
>
> I’m more than happy to leave the codebase as it is but I don’t like 
> the way that we have to keep updating the version number/checksum.
>
>
Bumping the version of the boot JDK is something that happens during 
every release, usually soon after the GA of the previous release. I 
don't think you can avoid that.

-Alan
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