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@Okeanos Okeanos commented Feb 14, 2026

Adds support for auto-discovery of additional popular JDKs on Windows. Vendors of JDKs for Windows apparently pick their own (default) location to install into and do not re-use the Oracle default of C:\Program Files\Java.

This adds support for automatically discovering the following OpenJDK implementations:

  • Amazon Corretto
  • Azul Zulu
  • BellSoft Liberica
  • Eclipse Adoptium

Fixes #140

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Gradle & e.g. JetBrains' IDEs both use the Windows registry to look up JDK locations. However, adding support for that would have:

  • changed the existing simple implementation a lot
  • introduced a sizeable amount of Windows platform code
  • not yielded a lot of benefit, see attached screenshot for what a registry looks like after installing a variety of JDKs
    • in particular: the registry key structure is non-consistent across vendors, leading to a lot of extra steps to parse as many as possible
    • occasionally existing keys (particularly the Oracle Java defaults) are overwritten by other vendors (usually selected optionally in the installers), leading to missed detections compared to simple file system checks
    • some vendors (e.g. Amazon) do not create their custom registry keys at all
Screenshot 2026-02-14 at 16 16 19

I picked a "random" selection of OpenJDK Vendors that came to mind for this. If other vendors (e.g. Microsoft, IBM (OpenJ9), …) are of interest I can check them out and add them as well.

The implementation is "naive" (just add the folders to scan) on purpose to keep things simple.


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Adds support for auto-discovery of additional popular JDKs on Windows. Vendors
of JDKs for Windows apparently pick their own (default) location to install into
and do not re-use the Oracle default of `C:\Program Files\Java`.

This adds support for automatically discovering the following OpenJDK
implementations:

- Amazon Corretto
- Azul Zulu
- BellSoft Liberica
- Eclipse Adoptium

Fixes apache#140
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