For the system Java wrappers to find this JDK, symlink it with sudo ln -sfn /usr/local/opt/openjdk@11/libexec/openjdk.jdk /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk-11.jdk openjdk@11 is keg-only, which means it was not symlinked into /usr/local, because this is an alternate version of another formula. If you need to have openjdk@11 first in your PATH, run: echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/openjdk@11/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc For compilers to find openjdk@11 you may need to set: export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openjdk@11/include"