From Adoptopenjdk to Temurin on a Mac using Homebrew

Adoptopenjdk joined the Eclipse foundation and renamed their JDK to Temurin. Here are instructions on how to migrate on Macs with Homebrew.

The following instructions removes Adoptopenjdk JDKs you may still have:

brew remove adoptopenjdk/openjdk/adoptopenjdk8 brew remove adoptopenjdk/openjdk/adoptopenjdk11 brew untap AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk brew remove adoptopenjdk8 brew remove adoptopenjdk11 brew remove adoptopenjdk

Use /usr/libexec/java_home -V to get an overview of any other JDK you may still have. Just delete what you don't need any more.

Then install Temurin 8, 11 and 17. The first command (brew tap …) is only needed in case you need Temurin 8 or 11:

brew tap homebrew/cask-versions brew install --cask temurin8 brew install --cask temurin11 brew install --cask temurin

Bonus: execute the following to define aliases that let you easily switch between Java versions:

cat <<-EOF >> ~/.zshrc # Aliases for switching java version alias java17="export JAVA_HOME=\$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 17)" alias java11="export JAVA_HOME=\$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 11)" alias java8="export JAVA_HOME=\$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8)" java11 EOF

Are you looking for more power? For example you need to test for many more JDKs? Then maybe Sdkman is something for you.