My ansible role does the following:

• create user weblogic with bash and homedir in group weblogic

• Unpacks jdk into an oracle_home dir, owned by weblogic user

And finally:

- name: Set
  become: true
  become_user: weblogic
  set_fact:
    newpath: "{{JAVA_HOME}}/bin:{{lookup('ansible.builitin.env', 'PATH')}}"

So newpath is

"/opt/oracle/jdk1.8.0_431/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin"

My issue is with this task:

- name : Validate Java
  become: true
  become_user: weblogic
  command: "java -version"
  environment:
   JAVA_HOME: "{{JAVA_HOME}}"
   PATH: "{{newpath}}"
  register: javaver

On ubuntu 24 I get the java installed in /usr/bin/java

On SUSE SLES15 i get the wanted java

I checked directly as user weblogic on both hosts:

export JAVA_HOME=/opt/oracle/jdk1.8.0_431
export PATH="/opt/oracle/jdk1.8.0_431/bin:$PATH"

java -version

On ubuntu host:
bash: /opt/oracle/jdk1.8.0_431/bin/java: No such file or directory

On SUSE:
java version “1.8.0_431”