So I installed the beta of JDK 8 a while ago to look at some of the examples. I thought for sure by now, it’s easy to change between versions.
Doing some Play development with IntelliJ. For some reason, IntelliJ is compiling with 8 even though:
- I have the compiler set in Preferences to use 1.6
- Supposedly it’s using SBT through external build, but sbt from the command line works
- JAVA_HOME is pointing to JDK 6.
If I go to the Java Preferences page, it does show 8 installed, but there is no option to uninstall it and it doesn’t see any of the other versions.
When I do which java, it tells me /usr/bin/java and I do /usr/bin/java -version and it returns 1.6.
Note: with a little fiddling, you can use IntelliJ and JDK7, see here.
