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[Feature] Support JDK toolchains plugin in spotless maven plugin

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
build-system

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No files, tests, or entry points are named in the issue. Start by locating the Maven plugin's toolchain handling and compare it with Maven's JDK toolchains plugin behavior; done means Spotless selects the configured JDK per module, including projects using older supported Java versions.

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Description

enhancement

Spotless can not sense the toolchains plugin in Maven.

I have different Java versions in my project and use Spotless to be the checkstyle plugin. Also, I use the JDK toolchains maven plugin to help me pick different JDK env in different modules. But when I built the whole project, Spotless can not sense the toolchains, so it used the wrong JDK to apply Spotless(different modules have different Google Java formats to support different JDK).

I'm willing to submit a PR, but I wonder if the communications can merge it into older versions such as 2.30.0 or a branch that supports JAVA 8(cause I have Java 8 env).

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