Java 1.5 on MacOS X

[ScottEllsworth]

Howdy, all.

Tiger brings a 1.5 VM that may offer better graphics performance.

What do we need to do to make oXygen use this 1.5 VM? Setting the version flag in info.plist alone does not work, as it reports that the VM version is not correct.

Scott

[sorin_ristache]

Hi,

Juts install Tiger, then install <oXygen/> and run it. <oXygen/> will use the Apple's Java VM installed on your system in the standard location /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/ so if this contains a Java 1.5 VM this will be used without any change to info.plist.

Best Regards,
Sorin

[rajsingh]

This isn't working. I still end up running 1.4 somehow. I have the same problem with Eclipse and can't wait to solve this.

[dnedrow]

If you want to use 1.5 for everything (applets and CLI), be sure that you've set the Applet and Application settings in the Java Preferences tool provided with Apple's J2SE 5 package (/Applications/Utilities/Java/J2SE 5.0).

Note that this won't make any difference at the command line, so you'll also need to manually change the CurrentJDK symlink as shown below:

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dnedrow$ pwd 

/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions 

dnedrow$ sudo rm CurrentJDK 

dnedrow$ sudo ln -s 1.5.0 CurrentJDK 

dnedrow$ java -version 

java version "1.5.0_02" 

-David