![]() ![]() On executing the command /usr/libexec/java_home -V we get the below output. Mac OS X requires us to set JAVA_HOME variable in ~/.bash_profile to /usr/libexec/java_home. Now lets install JDK 7 and JDK 8, they can be downloaded from here as any other software installed on Mac. ![]() Mac OS X 10.6 onward ship with JDK installed, here I have JDK 1.6 already installed. The command to verify the existing Java version is java -version and which java is used to check the location of the java command. P.S At the time of writing, the JDK early-access build is JDK 16. The JDK build doesn’t exist in the Homebrew repository, like the early-access builds, or Oracle JDK. For some reasons, we need to install Java on macOS manually: Anti-Homebrew, developers love to control everything. So in this post we shall see how to install multiple JDKs on Mac OS X, and also switch between them easily as and when required. Manual install Java (Early-Access Builds) on macOS. So I took a small risk and just tried out. ![]() It so happened that after watching JDK 8 in action in the GIDS Summit i was very much interested in trying out some of the features of JDK8, but i wasn’t sure of installing JDK 8 on my Mac because of the fact that the project i am working on is based on JDK 6 and will Mac allow me to uninstall JDK 8 and reinstall JDK 6 and in the process my OS shouldn’t be corrupted. ![]()
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