Brew unable to install older java versions

[Anirudh Agarwal]

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Bug Location

brew would not be able to look for older versions of java, like java8 mentioned in the documentation, until cask is updated with versions.

Tool/Language/etc

Other Information

Found the solutions at:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44632292/how-to-install-specific-java-version-using-homebrew

[Andrew Janke]

I think a better approach is to use the adoptopenjdk/openjdk tap. That's the canonical source for JDKs straight from AdoptOpenJDK, and provides several versions and variants of the JDK.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53772023/how-to-install-java-8-on-osx-macos-mojave-with-homebrew/55775566

[Simon Egersand]

Fixed in #285.