If both are identical, you can safely install the archive file.Then extract the downloaded file. Then open a new terminal window, and type the following command: shasum -a 256 the checksum value printed by the shasum command with the value published by the website.

Download binary distribution of OpenJDK 17 for macOSVisit the official download page of OpenJDK 17 at, and click on the download link for macOS/圆4 if your computer running on Intel’s CPU, or choose macOS/AArch64 for Apple’s CPU: It’s strongly recommend to verify SHA256 checksum of the downloaded file against the value published on the website (click the corresponding link sha256).

And JDK 17 is the latest Long Term Release (LTS) of Java SE platform, as of January 2022. The same steps may be applied for any Unix operating systems.You know, OpenJDK is a production-ready, open-source distribution of JDK.

In this article, I’d like to share with you the steps for downloading and installing Java Development Kit (JDK) with OpenJDK 17 on macOS.

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