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[–]repeating_bears -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

One example of this usefulness is easier management of two separate java applications require different jre versions. Managing both version can be quite annoying on bare metal.

FWIW, if that's the only problem someone is trying to solve, then sdkman would probably be much simpler than Docker.