java -version # openjdk version "21.0.2" 2024-07-16 LTS You’re done. No Oracle account. No license anxiety. No Intel-on-ARM sadness.
brew install openjdk@21 This pulls from the Homebrew core – which uses , not Oracle’s. No account. No audit fear. No license anxiety. java 21 download mac
export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@21/bin:$PATH" Boom. Java 21, native ARM, fully open source, and you didn’t touch Oracle’s website. If you really want to go down the rabbit hole, you have vendors : java -version # openjdk version "21
Then you symlink it:
sudo ln -sfn $(brew --prefix)/opt/openjdk@21/libexec/openjdk.jdk /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk-21.jdk And add to your shell profile: fully open source