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Table 1. Revisions history
VersionDateComments

v1.2

11/9/2016

Explained JVMPlatformVersion for Java 9

v1.1

11/8/2016

Added Java 9 command

v1.0

01/19/2013

Initial blog post

Apple announced to remove Java Preferences app from Mac OS X.
Details could be found here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5493). Let’s try to fix it.

Generally, Java applications will use the JAVA_HOME environment variable to pick a JDK.

To set to JDK 6
export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.6)
To set JDK 7
 export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.7)
To set JDK 8
 export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8)
To set JDK 9
 export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 9)
In JDK 9, Oracle changed JVMPlatformVersion format. Before JDK 9, the format was 1.x
info.plist jdk8 9
You can check this in /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/{java version}/Contents/Info.plist
Created aliases for my zsh shell
alias setjdk16='export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.6)'
alias setjdk17='export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.7)'
alias setjdk18='export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8)'
alias setjdk19='export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 9)'

For the exotic cases, like Netbeans follow instruction here