Installing java8 with Homebrew seems to no longer be working. After running:
brew install caskroom/cask/java8
I get the follow
The command is
brew cask install adoptopenjdk8-openj9
Fixed my problem and I can run my project in java8
java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_222
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_222-b10)
Eclipse OpenJ9 VM (build openj9-0.15.1, JRE 1.8.0 Mac OS X amd64-64-Bit Compressed References 20190717_298 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)
OpenJ9 - 0f66c6431
OMR - ec782f26
JCL - f147086df1 based on jdk8u222-b10)