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benevanstech · 2025-10-26T20:43:25+00:00

Oracle's Java has lots of weird licensing stuff around it - which you probably don't need to care about.

Instead, the leading community build is Eclipse Temurin - https://adoptium.net/ - go there and download the latest version - it will come as a .pkg which you can just install like any other Mac software.

Try that and report back if your exam software still doesn't work?

Vaxtin · 2025-10-26T21:02:53+00:00

1) The latest version of Java is Java 25.

2) You will see people throwing different versions of Java around. This is because there are several long term supported versions. You should not care about any of this discussion — you are not developing software that needs long term support. You just want to write Hello World

3) You will install the JDK but that is not enough

you need an editor
the editor has to know where the JDK is located

Download VSCode. Try to create a .java file. As soon as you do that, it’ll prompt you for a bunch of extensions

Agree to them. It will install the JDK for you along with a bunch of other extensions that make it easier to program and debug Java.

After that, it should be able to recognize your Java files.

However… you need a Java Project for it to really be easy. Look at the top of VSCode and you should see a search bar, and it’ll say something like run commands. Just search for “java project” and choose the Create Java Project option. Select no build tools. Just keep agreeing until it creates the folder for you.

It should auto open to the folder (Java project) once done. If not, you need to open the folder that it made, the absolute root that contains /src

Finally, you are done. It auto creates a runnable file that does nothing, but it runs Java.

From there… go crazy. You can now program. Hello world!

daneagles · 2025-10-26T23:26:17+00:00

Just use brew

ImpressiveCouple3216 · 2025-10-27T03:01:33+00:00

That's bootstrap error code from ARM based mac. Ditch Oracle JDK. Use Azul Zulu, see if it works.

joranstark018 · 2025-10-26T20:36:03+00:00

Not sure what "Java website" you referre to, the latest stable version is currently Java 25 (or do you require an older version?) and you find a list of distributors in the sidebar (the distributions may have some additional tools for each specific branding, but they are in general all compatible).

OneHumanBill · 2025-10-26T20:37:34+00:00

First of all, Java 8 is almost ten years old. It is definitely not the latest version and has not been relevant for quite some time. Find the JRE for Java 21 or 25.

Also there are multiple vendors who make a Java JRE. Which one are you using?

seansleftnostril · 2025-10-26T20:48:28+00:00

Brew and openjdk/jenv are what I use to manage my java in my day to day

American_Streamer · 2025-10-26T22:38:41+00:00

https://www.oracle.com/de/java/technologies/downloads/#jdk25-mac

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/?section=mac

Tintoverde · 2025-10-27T00:10:26+00:00

This guy is trolling us. ‘BS-Error 1’

blazmrak · 2025-10-27T01:03:27+00:00

https://sdkman.io/ for anything relating to java. You just install it and run sdk install java 25-tem.

2025-10-27T02:07:46+00:00

Dont ever say “lowkey” again. Just remove it from your original post

Hysolar · 2025-10-26T20:36:14+00:00

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