How to install specific JDK (jdk1.8.0_152.jdk) on MacOS?

Question

For the life of me I can't figure this out.

IntelliJ is supposed to be bundled with this version I thought but it doesn't appear in my /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines .

I used brew to install the current version of java8 which is jdk1.8.0_202.jdk but that isn't what our production servers are using and it actually has some features that get in my way right now.

Oracle only gives the ability to download jdk1.8.0_211.jdk or jdk1.8.0_212.jdk and I don't see a feature to look at historical versions.

I'm fairly sure this is a redundant question and I apologize for that but I can't seem to find it anywhere despite searching for a couple of hours at this point.

Answer 1

Oracle provides an archive of every version of Java. If you're specifically looking for a sub-version of Java 8 , they have that, too.

Answer 2

The simplest way to install, remove, and switch between different JDKs on MacOS is with SDKMAN . Currently, the following JDK versions are supported:

$ sdk l java
================================================================================
Available Java Versions
================================================================================
     13.ea.19-open       10.0.2-zulu       * 7.0.181-zulu                       
     12.0.1-sapmchn      10.0.2-open         1.0.0-rc-16-grl                    
     12.0.1-zulu         9.0.7-zulu          1.0.0-rc-15-grl                    
     12.0.1-open         9.0.4-open          1.0.0-rc-14-grl                    
     12.0.1.j9-adpt    + 8u152-zulu                                             
     12.0.1.hs-adpt      8.0.212-zulu                                           
     12.0.1-librca       8.0.212-amzn                                           
     11.0.3-sapmchn      8.0.212.j9-adpt                                        
     11.0.3-zulu         8.0.212.hs-adpt                                        
     11.0.3-amzn         8.0.212-librca                                         
     11.0.3.j9-adpt      8.0.202-zulu                                           
     11.0.3.hs-adpt      8.0.202-amzn                                           
     11.0.3-librca       8.0.202-zulufx                                         
     11.0.2-open     > + 8.0.201-oracle                                         
     11.0.2-zulufx       7.0.222-zulu                                           

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+ - local version
* - installed
> - currently in use
================================================================================

SDKMAN can also be used to install other JVM-based tools, languages, and frameworks such as Groovy, Grails, Ant, Gradle, Kotlin, Maven, Scala.