[Building Sakai] Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) has on 1.5 JVM

[Steve Swinsburg]

About to upgrade to Snow Leopard myself, but can you not change this  
in the Applications > Utilities > Java > Java Preferences app like you  
used to be able to?

In previous versions of OS X, the symlink that /Library/Java/Home  
points to is what you set via that app.

Thanks for the heads up!

cheers,
Steve

On 01/09/2009, at 9:38 PM, Tim DiLauro wrote:

> This is interesting.  I did a clean install (formatted disk after
> booting Snow Leopard install DVD) of Snow Leopard and as part of the
> install, restored content from my Time Machine backup.  I ended up
> with 1.3, 1.5, and 1.6 JVMs, all of which I had in Leopard (though I
> am unsure if they are identical to the Leopard ones, minor versions,
> tweaks, etc.).  Missing, though, was the 1.4 JVM that had been there
> in Leopard.
>
> So, there will probably be some variation in people's experiences  
> with this.
>
> Cheers,
> ~Tim
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Matthew
> Buckett<matthew.buckett at oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>> It seems that the latest version of Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) only
>> contains a Java 1.6 JVM (one way of saving space) and it's possible
>> that even if you're upgrading from Leopard you will lose your 1.5  
>> JVM.
>> I think they point in pointers to the 1.5 JVM that just to the 1.6
>> one. As lots of Sakai developers are Mac users I thought this might
>> cause some issues. Someone has a post about how to get 1.5 back  
>> (but I
>> haven't tried this).
>>
>> http://juggernaut.haet.ru/index.php/2009/06/24/java-1-5-in-snow-leopard/
>>
>> At the moment we (Sakai) are still targeting a 1.5 JVM I believe,
>> however the move to 1.6 will happen in the near future?
>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-15874 - 1.6 Ticket
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cms.sakai.devel/29564 - Last
>> message about 1.6 on list.
>>
>> --
>>  Matthew Buckett
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