Zephyr Workbench, a VSCode extension to manage Zephyr on STM32.
It enables users to easily create, develop, and debug Zephyr applications.
Main features:
Install host dependencies.
Import toolchain and SDK.
Create, configure, build and manage apps.
Debug STM32.
You can directly download it from the VSCode marketplace
For more details, visit the Zephyr Workbench
Needless to say I am not at all impressed with this forum!
However for any other poor soul stuck with this it is necessary to downrev JAVA, I found 8 worked ok, I suspect the 32bit software has a bug dealing with double digit numbers.