Visual Studio Code showing “Java 11 or more recent is required to run. Please download and install a recent JDK”

Question

Today Visual Studio Code started showing me a pop-up saying:

Java 11 or more recent is required to run. Please download and install a recent JDK.

Answer 1

I was experiencing the same issue and the following change to my setting.json file resolved the issue. Big thanks to this comment on patch notes.

"java.home": "C:/Program Files/AdoptOpenJDK/jdk-11.0.8.10-hotspot",
"java.configuration.runtimes": [
    {
        "name": "JavaSE-1.8",
        "path": "C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_211",
        "default": true
    },
    {
        "name": "JavaSE-11",
        "path": "C:/Program Files/AdoptOpenJDK/jdk-11.0.8.10-hotspot",
    }
]