Comments on: ⚑ Using Java 1.5 on Mac OS X Tiger

By: Frig

Frig — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 18:34:50 +0000

If you want to use it as defualt JRE you just have to open Java Preferences (Applications/Utilities/Java/J2SE 5.0 normally) and change the “Java Application Runtime Settings” that your mac uses JRE 5.0 as default.

By: MJ

MJ — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 22:40:56 +0000

I changed both the Current and CurrentJDK and everything works fine when using jGRASP…except for the fact that the program for some reason is just giving me a constant busy wheel and the only way to shut it down is by forcing it. Any ideas why this is happening?

By: Raj

Raj — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 14:02:30 +0000

Now things look right. Seems like I required a reboot for the changes to take effect. Now on to another Java program I use, OxygenXML, which is still finding v 1.4.2 somehow.

By: Brent

Brent — Sat, 28 May 2005 17:51:04 +0000

Just changing the Current and CurrentJDK symlinks and nothing else worked just fine for me.

You might want to check all the symlinks in JavaVM.Framework to make sure they all use Versions/Current and Versions/CurrentJDK.

By: Alf

Alf — Fri, 27 May 2005 09:06:58 +0000

Well, I changed both of those and from ‘Configuration Details’ I got 1.5 running Eclipse. Maybe you also need to change the prefs. from “/Applications/Utilities/Java/J2SE 5.0″. I changed them first but Eclipse was still using 1.4.2 until I changed the “Current” and “CurrentJDK” to point to 1.5.0. Oh, and don’t forget to add the 1.5.0 JVM to Eclipse in the Preferences-Java (also 5.0 in the Compiler section there!).

Hope that helps…

By: Raj

Raj — Wed, 18 May 2005 07:50:04 +0000

Neither one of these seems to work, at least according to the information shown when you select ‘About Eclipse Platform’ from the ‘Eclipse Menu’, click on ‘Configuration Details’, scroll down a page, and look at java.home, java.runtime.version, etc.

By: Tomas

Tomas — Mon, 16 May 2005 16:14:30 +0000

I think it's supposed to be 'CurrentJDK' instead of just 'Current'.

$ cd /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions $ sudo mv CurrentJDK CurrentJDK.old $ sudo ln -s 1.5 CurrentJDK