SDKMAN! is a tool for managing parallel versions of multiple Software Development Kits on most Unix based systems. It provides a convenient Command Line Interface (CLI) and API for installing, switching, removing and listing Candidates. Formerly known as GVM the Groovy enVironment Manager, it was inspired by the very useful RVM and rbenv tools, used at large by the Ruby community. SDKMAN is a tool for managing parallel Versions of multiple Software Development Kits on any Unix-based system. It provides a convenient command-line interface for installing, switching, removing and listing Candidates. If the environment needs tweaking for SDKMAN to be installed, the installer will prompt you accordingly and ask you to restart. Making life easier. No more trawling download pages, extracting archives, messing with _HOME and PATH environment variables. Runs on any UNIX based platforms, macOS, Linux, Cygwin, Solaris and FreeBSD.
Features
- Multi-platform
- New Clients can easily be written by consuming our open Broker REST API
- Vendors can publish and announce their own releases through a secure Vendor API
- Written in bash and only requires curl and zip/unzip to be present on your system
- Even works with ZSH too
- Install Software Development Kits for the JVM such as Java, Groovy, Scala, Kotlin and Ceylon