setup-java
GitHub Action to download and install Oracle's Java Development Kit builds (by oracle-actions)
setup-java
Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of Java (by actions)
| setup-java | setup-java | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 12 | |
| 78 | 1,936 | |
| - | 1.3% | |
| 8.5 | 7.1 | |
| 8 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| Java | TypeScript | |
| Universal Permissive License v1.0 | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
setup-java
Posts with mentions or reviews of setup-java.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-21.
- Which version you have found most useful and stable after Java 8 ?
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global-tz, a new fork of iana-tz (uses JEP 330 to automate data transformation)
Oracle setup-java (https://github.com/oracle-actions/setup-java) and its initial version have been using single file execution for quite some time.
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Introducing the `oracle-actions/setup-java` GitHub action
There's also actions that hit the jdk website using a HEAD request https://github.com/oracle-actions/setup-java/... I don't know why this is necessary AT ALL.
- Github action to download and install Oracle JDK and OpenJDK (including EA) builds.
setup-java
Posts with mentions or reviews of setup-java.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-08-28.
- GitHub workflows tips and tricks
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Semantic Versioning using GitVersion YAML file for your .NET, Java, and Kotlin projects' CI/CD
name: Java Build and Test With Gradle on: [push, pull_request, workflow_dispatch] jobs: build: runs-on: ubuntu-latest permissions: contents: read steps: - name: Checkout uses: actions/checkout@v4.2.2 with: fetch-depth: 0 - name: Set up JDK 23 uses: actions/setup-java@v4.5.0 #https://github.com/actions/setup-java with: java-version: '23' distribution: 'oracle' - name: Install GitVersion 6.0.5 for Gradle run: | wget -q -O gitversion.tar.gz https://github.com/GitTools/GitVersion/releases/download/6.0.5/gitversion-linux-x64-6.0.5.tar.gz mkdir gitversion_extracted tar -xzf gitversion.tar.gz -C gitversion_extracted ls -R gitversion_extracted sudo mv gitversion_extracted/gitversion /usr/local/bin/gitversion sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gitversion - name: Setup Gradle 8.11.1 uses: gradle/actions/setup-gradle@v4 #https://github.com/gradle/actions/blob/main/docs/setup-gradle.md#build-with-a-specific-gradle-version with: gradle-version: '8.11.1' - name: Build with Gradle 8.11.1 run: gradle build --scan --warning-mode all dependency-submission: # See: https://github.com/gradle/actions/blob/main/dependency-submission/README.md runs-on: ubuntu-latest permissions: contents: write steps: - name: Checkout uses: actions/checkout@v4.2.2 - name: Set up JDK 23 uses: actions/setup-java@v4.5.0 with: java-version: '23' distribution: 'oracle' - name: Setup Gradle 8.11.1 uses: gradle/actions/setup-gradle@v4 with: gradle-version: '8.11.1' - name: Setup Gradle Wrapper run: gradle wrapper - name: Generate and submit dependency graph uses: gradle/actions/dependency-submission@v4
- Disable Annotations in Github Actions
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Using Github Actions to publish your Flutter APP to Firebase App Distribution
Then, we have two important initial steps to define. The first one is an official GitHub Action used to check-out a repository so a workflow can access it. The second one it's pretty more complex but, briefly, downloads and set up a requested version of Java.
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Top 10 GitHub Actions You Should Use to set up your CI/CD Pipeline
The most popular ones are Node.js, Python, Java JDK, Go, .Net Core SDK.
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My summary of jPrime 2022
Finally, note that the v2 of setup-java GitHub Action limits the possible JDK distributions to four options. If you need to use one that is not listed, use foojayio/setup-java instead to configure any distribution.
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Upgrade to Gradle JDK 11 on Github Actions
See https://github.com/actions/setup-java for more configuration regarding distribution, version and caching.
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Github action to download and install Oracle JDK and OpenJDK (including EA) builds.
Why can't Oracle just integrate with https://github.com/actions/setup-java like everyone else?
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Deploying to GitHub Pages using GitHub Actions
Next up we'll need to add a step to compile our production ready build. For this we can add two new steps, one which configures our Node version to ensure it matches our application, followed by another that runs the necessary commands with npm. Depending on how your application is built you may need to add another step between these to install any sort of required environments such as Python or Java.
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JaCoCo coverage badges, PR coverage checks, and PR coverage comments, from GitHub Actions
Set up the JDK with the actions/setup-java GitHub Action.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing setup-java and setup-java you can also consider the following projects:
omegaide - An Instant IDE from the Future that supports any programming language.
setup-dotnet - Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of the .NET core sdk
java-metadata - Project collecting release metadata of various JDK distributions.
github-sponsors-readme-action - ❤️ This GitHub Action will automatically add your GitHub Sponsors to your README. It can be configured in multiple ways allowing you to display and breakdown your sponsors by price tier with fallbacks.
SAP Machine - An OpenJDK release maintained and supported by SAP
github-pages-deploy-action - 🚀 Automatically deploy your project to GitHub Pages using GitHub Actions. This action can be configured to push your production-ready code into any branch you'd like.