openjdk@8 (deprecated)

Disable date: 2030-12-31

Install command: 
brew install openjdk@8

Development kit for the Java programming language

https://openjdk.org/

License: GPL-2.0-only

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/openjdk@8.json

Formula code: openjdk@8.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Intel		 sonoma ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 1.8.0-504

Other versions:

openjdk@25 25.0.4.1 Development kit for the Java programming language
openjdk@21 21.0.12.1 Development kit for the Java programming language
openjdk@17 17.0.20.1 Development kit for the Java programming language
openjdk@11 11.0.32.1 Development kit for the Java programming language

Keg-only because this is an alternate version of another formula.

Depends on:

freetype 2.14.3 Software library to render fonts
giflib 6.1.3 Library and utilities for processing GIFs

Depends on when building from source:

autoconf 2.73 Automatic configure script builder
pkgconf 3.0.7 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
gawk 5.4.1 GNU awk utility

Uses from macOS: unzip (build), zip (build), cups (no_linkage)

Requires: x86_64 architecture

Binaries: appletviewer, clhsdb, extcheck, hsdb, idlj, jar, jarsigner, java, java-rmi.cgi, javac, javadoc, javah, javap, jcmd, jconsole, jdb, jdeps, jfr, jhat, jinfo, jjs, jmap, jps, jrunscript, jsadebugd, jstack, jstat, jstatd, keytool, native2ascii, orbd, pack200, policytool, rmic, rmid, rmiregistry, schemagen, serialver, servertool, tnameserv, unpack200, wsgen, wsimport, xjc

For the system Java wrappers to find this JDK, symlink it with
    sudo ln -sfn $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/openjdk@8/libexec/openjdk.jdk /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk-8.jdk

Analytics:

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Installs1,1683,52918,803
Installs (--HEAD)023
Installs on Request1,1503,43017,255
Installs on Request (--HEAD)023
Build Errors30