Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Installing Java 1.9

Java 1.9


In order to be able to help implementing initial support for Java 1.9 inside Apache Ant,.I have downloaded and installed JDK 1.9 on my Mac.

Here is the Java 1.9 download site : https://jdk9.java.net/download/

In order not to be caught off guard with software starting suddenly to use Java 1.9 spontaneously, this Stack Overflow page : How can I change Mac OS's default Java VM returned from /usr/libexec/java_home comes in handy.

Now I can set  JAVA_HOME to /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.9.0.jdk/Contents/Home and see for myself the test failures that Jan Matèrne has reported on the Ant Dev list.