setup-java vs fetch-api-data-action

setup-java

Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of Java (by actions)

fetch-api-data-action

🚚 GitHub action for handling authenticated API requests, allowing you to save the data from the request into your workspace as an environment variable and a .json file. (by JamesIves)

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setup-java		fetch-api-data-action
	Project
10	Mentions	1
1,429	Stars	100
3.9%	Growth	-
6.8	Activity	7.7
1 day ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
TypeScript	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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 2023-09-03.

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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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The most popular ones are Node.js, Python, Java JDK, Go, .Net Core SDK.
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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.
Upgrade to Gradle JDK 11 on Github Actions
1 project | dev.to | 21 Feb 2022

See https://github.com/actions/setup-java for more configuration regarding distribution, version and caching.
Github action to download and install Oracle JDK and OpenJDK (including EA) builds.
2 projects | /r/java | 13 Feb 2022

Why can't Oracle just integrate with https://github.com/actions/setup-java like everyone else?
Deploying to GitHub Pages using GitHub Actions
10 projects | dev.to | 25 Jan 2022

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.
JaCoCo coverage badges, PR coverage checks, and PR coverage comments, from GitHub Actions
6 projects | dev.to | 29 Nov 2021

Set up the JDK with the actions/setup-java GitHub Action.
JDK 17 First Release-Candidate Build Released #TestItNow
1 project | /r/java | 10 Aug 2021

It now works (as of yesterday) with Github Actions via https://github.com/actions/setup-java and setting the distribution to temurin.
Hosting Kotlin/JS on GitHub Pages via GitHub Actions
4 projects | dev.to | 5 Feb 2021

The Kotlin compiler needs Java to be present, so we use a predefined GitHub Action to install Java 1.8.

fetch-api-data-action

Posts with mentions or reviews of fetch-api-data-action. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-25.

Deploying to GitHub Pages using GitHub Actions
10 projects | dev.to | 25 Jan 2022

If you'd like to check out some of my other projects you can check out the Fetch API Data Action which I wrote an [article about (https://jamesiv.es/blog/github/actions/2020/03/07/fetching-authenticated-api-data/) a while ago or you can check out this one which I created to simplify the process of adding GitHub Sponsors to the README of popular projects as a perk for donating.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing setup-java and fetch-api-data-action you can also consider the following projects:

jacoco-badge-generator - Coverage badges, and pull request coverage checks, from JaCoCo reports in GitHub Actions

github-slug-action - GitHub Action to expose slug value of GitHub environment variables inside your GitHub workflow

upload-artifact

k8s-set-context - GitHub Action for setting context and retrieving Kubeconfig before deploying to Kubernetes clusters

Chips-n-Salsa - A Java library of Customizable, Hybridizable, Iterative, Parallel, Stochastic, and Self-Adaptive Local Search Algorithms

Angular - Deliver web apps with confidence 🚀

checkout - Action for checking out a repo

changie-action - GitHub action for Changie

Firebase-Distribution-Github-Action - This action uploads artifacts (.apk or .ipa) to Firebase App Distribution.

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.

setup-java - Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of Java

setup-python - Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of Python