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javanna

Reputation: 60245

Mac OS X Java Update: where is my jdk?

I've installed on my iMac (Mac OS X 10.6.6) the Java update which contains the version 1.6.0_24 of the jdk. I think this update has changed the directory structure of the jdk, so now I'm not able to configure it on eclipse. Before the update my eclipse were linked to this path: /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.Framework/Versions/Current/Home which actually seems wrong. Now I'm not able to link my eclipse to the jdk. Maybe this is the right path: /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home, but 1.6.0.jdk isn't a directory, so I'm not able to choose it in eclipse.

Has anyone experienced this problem? How can I solve it?

Upvotes: 26

Views: 49753

Answers (6)

ptommasi
ptommasi

Reputation: 1252

I was missing CurrentJDK folder as well, but I'm running Mac OS El Capitan.

In El Capitan it's not possible to modify the folder /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions, since it is under the /System folder and SIP is protecting it (you can disable SIP, but I do not recommend), a custom CurrentJDK soft link is not allowed.

I got some legacy software which was searching for CurrentJDK, and there was no way to update the path. To solve it I had to install Java for OS X 2015-001 provided by apple (it's Java 1.6), which fixed the Versions subfolder structure by pointing to the old Java 1.6. Not the best, but it fixed my error!

Upvotes: 0

Bernard Choi
Bernard Choi

Reputation: 446

Execute /usr/libexec/java_home on the terminal shell.

It will display a list of all your installed JDKs

Upvotes: 4

Fernando Batista
Fernando Batista

Reputation: 61

the follow directory works:

/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_31.jdk/Contents/Home

without "System"

Upvotes: 6

Aki
Aki

Reputation: 3839

On MacOSX 10.10, jdk 1.8 with IntelliJ, I use:

/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_31.jdk/Contents/Home/

Upvotes: 1

Muhammad Nabeel Arif
Muhammad Nabeel Arif

Reputation: 19310

For me following jdk link is working fine on Eclipse:

/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home

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Upvotes: 21

javanna
javanna

Reputation: 60245

It was my fault. I had also a jdk 1.5 manually installed and the update moved it away. Probably I made a mistake restoring my jdk-1.5 to its correct location. To solve my issue I just had to restore the symbolic links /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.Framework/Versions/CurrentJDK, which has to point to /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.Framework/Version.

Upvotes: 6

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