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Re: Java for Mac OS X 10.5, Update 2


On Aug 25, 2008, at 8:10 PM, Mike Swingler wrote:

On Aug 25, 2008, at 4:49 PM, Robert Koberg wrote:

On Aug 25, 2008, at 7:10 PM, Matt Drance wrote:

Hello Java developers,

A developer preview of Java for Mac OS X 10.5, Update 2 is now available at http://connect.apple.com.  The standard ADC terms and conditions apply, as does the recommendation to test this update on non-critical systems.

In particular, we would appreciate your feedback on the following areas:

• Drag-and-drop of files with names in various encodings
• Printing with javax.print and AWT printing APIs
• Launching WebStart applications that specify various Java platform versions
• Changing the preferred version of Java in Java Preferences

What is the expected behavior when changing the preferred version of java regarding an app launched from a shell (I switched mine to bash)?

For example, if you switch it to 1.6 and your shell reports you are using 1.6, do you still need to export JAVA_HOME to the 1.6 home directory (or set it in the /etc/bashrc)?

Alternatively, should you be able to export JAVA_HOME set to 1.6 in your /etc/bashrc, restart your shell and have it use 1.6?

Apologies if this is old news, but I can't find the information.

Yes, $JAVA_HOME is not set for you automatically. Would a tool like a '/usr/libexec/java_home' to simply print the full path to the user-preferred $JAVA_HOME be useful? Perhaps a .bashrc could check for it's existence, and set $JAVA_HOME to whatever it's output is...?

What do you think?


The /etc/bashrc, /etc/environment or a user's .profile would do it for me (I would also like to be able to set it with a bash startup script). Mostly I would like something that is documented clearly and easily findable. 

If it was an /etc/environment I would think the java preference tool could read that on boot and set it to what was defined there. But really, I haven't used a mac for about 4 or 5 years (and only for about 24 hours now) so I am sure you guys know what is best.

best,
-Rob





Mike Swingler
Java Runtime Engineer
Apple Inc.

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