java --version command on mac always shows latest version I have installed

Asked Nov 24 '21 at 18:53

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I have a new m1 mac.

I installed a few versions of the jdk (just following this tweet as an example)

So I did,

brew tap mdogan/zulu

brew install --cask zulu-jdk17 zulu-jdk16 zulu-jdk11 zulu-jdk8

Now I set my JAVA_HOME to point to jdk11 (most of my projects require jdk11), but when I run java --version it reports the info for 17.

And then if I run /usr/libexec/java_home -v"11" in my terminal, it'll say /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/zulu-11.jdk/Contents/Home, but when I run java --version again it'll report 17.

How do I get java --version to report 11 so it's inline with my JAVA_HOME.

asked Nov 24 '21 at 18:53

c_idle

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Your shell doesn't care about `JAVA_HOME`, only about `PATH` – Federico klez Culloca Nov 24 '21 at 18:54
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Try `which java` in the command line, that'll show you what's actually being invoked. It's probably a symlink to somewhere else, so you may need to change that. – Taylor Nov 24 '21 at 18:58
`which java` shows `/usr/bin/java`. Pardon my ignorance while I read up what a sym link is. – c_idle Nov 24 '21 at 19:09
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Check this answer given for similar problem It worked for me https://stackoverflow.com/a/24657630/12133296 – Mike Nov 24 '21 at 19:52

java --version command on mac always shows latest version I have installed

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