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Dan Rosenstark
Dan Rosenstark

Reputation: 69787

Running other java versions on OSX

Sorry if this seems like it's for SuperUser. I just deleted it there :)

I am running this command on OSX

/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5/Home/bin/java -version

and the response is

java version "1.6.0_17"

Is there any way to really run an older version of Java without downloading to a makeshift location?

OSX 10.6.2.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 212

Answers (2)

mipadi
mipadi

Reputation: 411340

Only Java 6 is available on Snow Leopard. The JavaVM framework has links for 1.4 and 1.5, but both of those links point to "CurrentJDK", which in turn points to 1.6, so even if you invoke the java executables in the 1.5 directory, you still get the 1.6 (Java 6) executable.

If you really need (32-bit) Java 5, you can get it by following these instructions.

Upvotes: 4

Brian Agnew
Brian Agnew

Reputation: 272417

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

can contain multiple versions. The symlink Current will point to the preferred, but you can choose which one to run just by specifying the path (as you've done above)

Upvotes: 1

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