Unable to install java8 with homebrew

Question

Installing java8 with Homebrew seems to no longer be working. After running:

brew install caskroom/cask/java8 

I get the following error:

Error: Cask 'java8' is unavailable: '/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/Casks/java8.rb' does not exist. 

Simply doing:

brew cask install java8 

Errors out with:

Error: Cask 'java8' is unavailable: No Cask with this name exists. 

This seems like a recent development because I remember installing it this way a few months ago. Any suggestions on how to properly install java8 on MacOS nowadays?

Answer 1

New command is now :

brew install --cask homebrew/cask-versions/adoptopenjdk8