How to install SDKMan on macOS

SDK man installation is OS agnostic and it has support for Unix based distribution like described in: https://sdkman.io/install

How to install Java with SDKMan

  1. Show posible java candidates

$ sdk list java
$ ================================================================================
 Available Java Versions for macOS ARM 64bit
 ================================================================================
  Vendor        | Use | Version      | Dist    | Status     | Identifier
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Corretto      |     | 20           | amzn    |            | 20-amzn
                |     | 20.0.1       | amzn    |            | 20.0.1-amzn
                |     | 19.0.2       | amzn    |            | 19.0.2-amzn
                |     | 19.0.1       | amzn    |            | 19.0.1-amzn

  1. Install the latest

$ sdk install java

  1. Optinally install java 8

$ sdk install java 8.0.362-zulu

Switch Java versions with SDK environments

  1. Set a sdk environment to your folder

$ sdk env init
.sdkmanrc created.

  1. Modify the sdkmanrc file according to the java version you want to specify

$ cat .sdkmanrc
 # Enable auto-env through the sdkman_auto_env config
 # Add key=value pairs of SDKs to use below
 java=8.0.362-zulu

  1. Active the sdk environment whenever you need to change java version for the current shell session

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