Jdk Java Mac OS X 10

I looked for a Mac version, but Im a bit surprised to only see downloadable versions for Linux, Windows and Solaris.

Jdk Java Mac OS X 10

As far as I know, Apple JDK 6 is installed by default on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).

Maybe you need to install the developer tools from your Mac OS X installation DVD (the dev tools are an optional install from the OS DVD).

It turns out you can get everything from the Apple developer page (you will need to register with your AppleID).

Also note that while Apple offers the optional Java install, it is only of the older Java 6.

Current versions of Java for OS X are now distributed by Oracle itself.

So looking for tools.jar isnt the right approach on Mac to know if its a JDK or JRE:).

My need was to get the tools.jar lib for a specific project and for me it was an approach to recognize a jdk;).

Problem with this approach (on Mac with 1.6) is that using classes that came AFTER 1.5 will still compile because they exist in the rt.jar.

So one could run in a 1.5 env and get a class not found exception with no prior warning when compiling.

I found this out the hard way with javax.swing.event.RowSorterEventListener.

I spent some time writing up my experience of my experience of installing and configuring various versions of JDK on Mac OS X 10.9.2.

To do it so you will need to add the parameter -source 1.5 andor -target 1.5 in the javac options or in your IDE.

I tried editing but Stack Overflow said the edits need to be longer than 6 characters.

Assuming here version 11.0.1 for Mac.

If you do not have a support agreement with Oracle, then it seems risky to me to use their JDK, especially since the differences to OpenJDK are minimal.

You should always have Java 5 and 1.4 and perhaps 1.3 installed if you have at least OS X 10.4.

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