We can get a copy of the latest snapshot of JDK 8 to play around with the lambda expressions (natively supported on IntelliJ IDEA) if you haven’t tried already closures in Groovy, Scala or just Predicates/Functions in Google Guava from this download resource Also to browse the JDK under an IDE point your editor to the JDK sources found in /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_07.jdk/Contents/Home/src.jar Following that you can mark JAVA_HOME or point your IDE towards /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_07.jdk/Contents/Home/. Successful installation will place Java 7 under /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_07.jdk/. From OpenJDK get your copy from this download resource.From Oracle get your copy from this download resource.We can download it either from Oracle or OpenJDK: We need to go out in the wild to get JDK 7 installed on Mac OS X since mother-Apple doesn’t support it. Also to browse the JDK under an IDE point your editor to the JDK sources found in /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0_37-b06-434.jdk/Contents/Home/src.jar Following that you can mark JAVA_HOME or point your IDE towards /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0_37-b06-434.jdk/Contents/Home/. Successful installation will place Java 6 under /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0_37-b06-434.jdk/. Under the download section download the Java for OS X 2012-06 Developer Package.It costs nothing (surprisingly if you consider it’s coming from Apple) and gives you access to a wealth of Mac OS recourses. Register into Apple’s Developer program.Therefore we’ll follow the Apple way to install the JDK although Java 1.6 can be branched out from Oracle or the OpenJDK project.

Java 6 is the last supported version provided by Apple. Here’s a quick guide to have Java versions 6,7,8 installed on Mac OS X above and beyond.

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