If your JDK was installed using Homebrew or MacPorts, please uninstall your JDK using the same way.

$ sudo rm -rf /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_79.jdk If you decide to remove a JDK version, just simply delete its installation folder. export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8` Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.121-b13, mixed mode)Īppending following line to your ~/.profile file will switch system's JDK to 1.8 version. Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_121-b13)

Using java -version or javac -version to show the JDK version used by system. $ cd /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachinesģ How to check which JDK version is currently used by Mac OS Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_121.jdk/Contents/HomeĪbove java_home -v command has already told you where JDKs were installed. You can then run java -version to check that it worked the way you expected. Output after executing above command may be similar with following text, which means there was two versions of JDK installed, 1.8.0_121 and 1.7.0_79. Below is an example command to install Zulu 16.0.1 but obviously you can change to your preferred flavour based on the sdk list java output. The java_home -v command will list all JDKs already installed in your Mac OS. Once the maven-compiler-plugin change is made to the POM, you can open up Eclipse’s Java compiler properties page and notice that JDK compliance has changed from JDK 1.5 to 1.8.Tips on how to uninstall JDK or Java SE in Mac OS X.ġ How to see JDK versions already installed Note that since the 3.8.0 version of the Maven compiler plugin, you can actually specify the release version of Java rather than source and target:

To force Eclipse and the Maven compiler plugin to have JDK 1.8 compliance on your new projects, simply add the following to your POM file: Īn alternate, albeit slightly more verbose approach to tell Eclipse and Maven to use Java 8 or newer compilers is to configure the Apache Maven plugin: The build tool always has a simple resolution on offer. Of course, there is a fairly simple answer to this problem. Eclipse Maven JDK 1.8 compliance and support

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