Included JFC (Java Foundation Classes - Swing, Accessibility API, Java 2D, Pluggable Look & Feel, and Drag & Drop). Also released J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) and J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition).

J2SE 1.2 (JDK 1.2) (December 1998): Re-branded as 'Java 2' and renamed JDK to J2SE (Java 2 Standard Edition).

JDK 1.1 (February 1997): Introduced AWT event model, inner class, JavaBean, JDBC, and RMI.

JDK 1.0 (January 1996): Originally called Oak (named after the oak tree outside James Gosling's office).

JDK Alpha and Beta (1995): Sun Microsystem announced Java in September 23, 1995.

Oracle JDK requires a commercial license from Oracle and businesses (since 2019) need to purchase a commercial license in order to receive software updates. OpenJDK is completely open source with a GNU General Public License. The main difference between OpenJdk and OracleJDK is licensing.

OracleJDK: This article is based on the 'OracleJDK' ) (due to legacy), which is free for personal and development use but no longer free for commercial use.

Popular OpenJDK builds includes Azul Zulu, Red Hat OpenJDK (IcedTea), Amazon Corretto, Eclipse Adoptium's Temurin, SapMachine, Microsoft OpenJDK, and more. It does not include web-browser plugin and Web Start. OpenJDK includes the virtual machine (HotSpot), the Java Class Library, and the Java Compiler.

OpenJDK: Currently, the 'OpenJDK' ) developed by Oracle, Java community, Red Hat, Azul Systems, IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, SAP, provides a free and open-source Java Platform Standard Edition (or Java SE or JDK) official reference implementation.

OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (AdoptOpenJDK)(build 25.The Java Development Kit (JDK), officially named 'Java Platform Standard Edition' or 'Java SE', is needed for writing and running Java programs. OpenJDK Runtime Environment (AdoptOpenJDK)(build 1.8.0_275-b01) Now you install which ever versions of java in you want. Type in “ java -version” in your terminal if you “No Java runtime present, requesting install” then you have removed OpenJDK version 15 successfully. Please note that this command will remove all JavaVirtualMachines on your machineĥ. navigate to the folder where JavaVirtualMachines is installed Please note user1 will be your own user nameģ. Users/ user1/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk-15.0.1/Contents/Home output example You may want to remove java first using the following linkġ5.0.1, x86_64: “OpenJDK 15.0.1” /Users/ user1/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk-15.0.1/Contents/Home

Well you can not run idlj on terminal, or you might just want to downgrade the java version to java 8 or openDJK-8.

Why would you want to remove openjdk 15 you may ask. I guess this applies to other version of openjdks. If you are facing the same issue, then here is how to solve it. I did not find any documentation or help on how to remove/uninstall openjdk version “15.0.1” on macOS.

Openjdk uninstall mac