[oXygen-user] OSX: Using Java 7 With Oxygen

[George Cristian Bina]

Hi Eliot,

Java 8 works better on Mac than Java 7 and you should be able to use 
that with oXygen and DITA OT 2.0 - Ionela pointed you to the 
distribution that contains a Java 8 JRE.

Best Regards,
George
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George Cristian Bina
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On 7/23/14, 10:42 PM, Eliot Kimber wrote:
> OK, I guess that explains it.
>
> Part of the issue I ran into was with testing the 2.0 version of the Open
> Toolkit--it appears to be compiled with Java 7 (meaning it fails to run
> under Java 6), so I upgraded to Java 7.
>
> This was just for testing the 2.0 OT through Oxygen, so it's not a deal
> killer to have Oxygen continue to use Java 6.
>
> Cheers,
>
> E.
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> On 7/23/14, 1:14 PM, "oXygen XML Editor Support (Ionela Istodor)"
> <> wrote:
>
>> Hi Eliot,
>>
>> First I'd like to point out that the primary and recommended
>> distribution of Oxygen for Mac OS X 10.5 and later (.zip) still requires
>> Java SE 6 (from Apple). The reason for this is that Java SE 6 from Apple
>> still has better integration and compatibility with OS X for desktop
>> applications and is more stable then the Java distributions from Oracle.
>> The .app launchers from this distribution do not recognize Java SE 7 or
>> later from Oracle, only Java SE 6 from Apple. On the other hand the .sh
>> scripts (e.g. oxygenMac.sh) work with any available Java (6 or later)
>> runtime.
>>
>> There is also available a distribution of Oxygen v16.0 for OS X 10.8 and
>> later (.tar.gz) that bundles Java SE 8u5. We have had various issues on
>> OS X with Java SE 7, so we have decided to use Java SE 8 instead.
>>
>> This download is somewhat hidden among the 'Requirements' bulleted list.
>> If you have trouble finding it, here's a direct download link:
>> http://www.oxygenxml.com/InstData/Editor/MacOSX/VM/oxygen.tar.gz
>>
>> Note that this distribution only uses the bundled Java runtime (Java SE
>> 8), not the system installed Java runtime.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ionela
>>
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>> On 7/23/2014 6:36 PM, Eliot Kimber wrote:
>>> I have just updated my OS X system to Java 7. I get Java 7 as the java
>>> version from the command line:
>>>
>>> contrext01:DITA-OT ekimber$ java -version
>>> java version "1.7.0_65"
>>> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_65-b17)
>>> Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.65-b04, mixed mode)
>>>
>>> And I was able to configure Eclipse to use the Java 7 runtime.
>>>
>>>
>>> However, Oxygen is still using the Java 6 JRE and I can't see how to
>>> change it. The instructions in the help that specify using the Java
>>> Preferences utility are out of date as that utility is no longer
>>> provided
>>> by Apple and the Oracle Java preferences doesn't show anything except
>>> the
>>> Java 7 runtime.
>>>
>>> If I look at the system properties in the About Oxygen all the
>>> java-related properties reflect Java 6, not Java 7, but I don't see any
>>> place that these are actually being set (not in my .bashrc, not in the
>>> Oxygen app plist files).
>>>
>>> What do I do to get Oxygen to use the 1.7 JRE?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> E.
>>>
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>>> Contrext, LLC
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