Has anybody managed to get SQL Developer working on MacOS Big Sur on ARM/Apple Silicon yet?

Richard Allen Nov 23 2020

I've followed the recent discussions on running SQL Developer on Macs that have been upgraded to Big Sub. Presumably they are all Intel-based Macs. Has anyone got a shiny new M1 / ARM based Mac that they have got SQL Developer running on?
There seem to be a couple of issues.
JDK. After seeing that Azul Zulu OpenJDK is available already ported to MacOS on AS/ARM, i tried installing that. SQLDeveloper starts ti run -- but that doesn't include JavaFX and so can't render the entire canvas.
Should Oracle Java JDK for Intel work, through Rosetta? I tried removing Zulu & installing Oracle JDK 11 then Sql Developer 20.2. This doesn't seem to run? Should it, or do I need an ARM JDK inc JavaFX?
Any thoughts welcome. I know this is early days and this is bleeding edge...

Thanks, Richard.

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