Take a look at how you can quickly get started with OpenJDK with this tutorial that gives you commands for installing version 7-11 through a Mac Terminal.
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Join For FreeThe Java SE Development Kit, or JDK, is an extended subset of tools that allow for developing applications for the Java programming language. The installation process is very straight forward: Navigate to the Java SE Downloads page. Choose the JDK Download: Agree to terms and download the Mac OS X version. The latest version like JDK 11, 13 does not provides JRE installers. Now see how to download and install JDK 8 & JRE in Mac OS without any confusion. The Java SE Development Kit 8 has many releases from JDK 8 to JDK 8u241. Here in this blog we will see the installation of JDK 8u241 on MacOS 10.15 Catalina.
In this article, I will be using Homebrewto install OpenJDK versions on the Mac.
We use brew install
to install JDK versions 8,9,10, andbrew cask install
for version 11 and above.
JDK for Mac ReadMe. This release of the JDK is a developer-only version. You can use it to create Java applications and includes the new JavaFX 2.2 client stack. There are several JDK implementations available for Linux, such as Oracle JDK, OpenJDK, Sun JDK, IBM JDK and GNU Java Compiler. We shall choose the Oracle JDK 8. Ubuntu chooses OpenJDK as its default JDK, which is not 100% compatible with Oracle JDK.
All the brew commands are executed in the Terminal window on the Mac.
Install OpenJDK Versions 8, 9, and 10
brew tap AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk
brew search /adoptopenjdk/
The Formulae section contains the identifiers for the various JDK versions.
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To install a specific JDK version: brew install <identifier>
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e.g. to install OpenJDK 8: brew install adoptopenjdk/openjdk/adoptopenjdk-openjdk8
JAVA_HOME should be set by the developer to /usr/local/Cellar/adoptopenjdk-openjdk8/jdk8u172-b11.
Install OpenJDK Version 11
brew cask install adoptopenjdk
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JAVA_HOME should be set by the developer to /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-11.jdk.
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