Oh, and installs the same JDK anyway, just without all the additional pointy clicky work. It’s just so much easier to get updates and update information all in one place. As I move the management of more development tools from manual management over to homebrew, I decided to use homebrew to manage my Java installation also. It was the typical “download from the Oracle website, then manually run the installer” deployment. I’ve had a ‘manual’ install of JDK 8 on my Mac for quite a while, mainly to run Clojure. If you want to install a specific major version of the JDK (6 or 8 at the time of writing), I describe how to do that in this new blog post. _ Update: The title of this post isn’t quite correct as using the homebrew cask mentioned in this blog post will install the current major version of the Oracle JDK.
The installation method described below will still work as it uses the non-versioned java cask, which installs the latest version of OpenJDK. Update II - : It looks like due to the recent licensing changes, the Java 8 JDK that brew used is not directly accessible anymore and likely behind some kind of paywall.
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