As this is a legacy version (released in April 2019), it is available through the Oracle Java Archive Access Requirement : You must have a free Oracle Account and be signed in to download files from the archive. Security Warning
Yes. Java versions are side-by-side compatible. Use JAVA_HOME to switch between them. jdk-8u211-windows-x64.exe
Update 211 added support for the new "Reiwa" era, which began on May 1, 2019. Developers can access this era programmatically using JapaneseEra.of(3) . As this is a legacy version (released in
The installer itself cannot find a prior JRE (ironically, the JDK installer requires a JRE to run). Solution: Ensure no older broken Java installations exist. Or use the EXE with /? to extract via command line. which began on May 1
jdk-8u211-windows-x64.exe /s ADDLOCAL=ToolsFeature,PublicJREFeature