In macOS-X Catalina (or macOS-XI/11/X1 after it), obtain the 'openjdk.tar.gz' archive-file (not dmg/zip) from OpenJDK.Java.net or its archive-page, (make sure you see 'https' (or Locked-Lock-symbol) in web-browser when you download). Jul 22, 2020 Red Hat Developer. We serve the builders. The problem solvers who create careers with code. Join us if you’re a developer, software engineer, web designer, front-end designer, UX designer, computer scientist, architect, tester, product manager, project manager or team lead. Mac OS X Port Project. The goal of this Project is to produce a high-quality, open source version of JDK 7 for the Mac. The final release has the following goals: Pass all appropriate certification tests for Java SE 7; Include a complete, native Cocoa-based UI Toolkit; Provide excellent performance; This Project is sponsored by the Porters. To download OpenJDK 11, you have to go to OpenJDK Archive download page. Then scroll down a little bit to find the version 11.0.2. OpenJDK is distributed in only zip or tar.gz file. For Windows, download the zip file for Windows 64-bit, i.e. Openjdk-11.0.2windows-x64bin.zip file. Extract the downloaded zip file to a directory.
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If you download the .tar.gz for OpenJDK 11 directly from http://jdk.java.net/11/, there’s no obvious installation instructions (at least that I could find) on the OpenJDK website or in the .gz file. If you’ve done any fiddling with different JDK versions on MacOS before, you’ve probably come across the ‘/usr/libexec/java_home’ utility, which composes a number of useful things relating to the JDK that you’re currently using in your PATH. Click here for my previous article about this utility and answers to this StackOverflow post, which includes one of the most extensive and useful guides to running different JDK versions on MacOS that I’ve seen.
/usr/libexec/java_home: This will show you where the current JDK home is, for example:
/usr/libexec/java_home -V: This lists all installed JDKs, which is shown below:
To switch between JDKs, use /usr/libexec/java_home -v version (e.g. 10):
Knowing that your available JDKs are installed to /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/ by default, moving the contents of the downloaded OpenJDK 11 dir from inside the .gz file to the same location would make sense.
Once you’ve moved it there, java_home -V now shows the new JDK in place:
