- Is it possible to get Java 6 running on a Mac PowerPC with Mac OS X 10.4? AFAIK SoyLatte is only available for Intel processors.
- Since OS X 10.7 Java is not (pre-)installed anymore, let’s fix that. As I’m writing this, Java 11.0.4 is the latest version and AdoptOpenJDK is one of the best places to find Prebuilt OpenJDK Binaries.Easy to follow details about how to install OpenJDK are available here. However, the easiest way is to select OpenJDK 11 (LTS), the HotSpot JVM, and macOS x64, which will expose two option.
Note: Mac OS X 10.7 will be the only version of Mac OS X supported by Oracle. 10.6.8 + Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 6 should continue to work for the foreseeable future. We do not expect to use 10.7-only API in the codebase.
A Mac does not come with a default Java installed. If we need to do something with Java we will have to install java into the Mac OS. There are many ways to install Java in Mac OS.
We might have multiple Java versions installed in Mac and we may need to switch versions. In this article we see ways to switch between different Java versions.
First of all we can check all the available java versions installed in Mac using following command:
In the .bash_profilefile if we simply add the following line with the desired version then it will switch to that specific version.
We can confirm this by checking the installed java version using the following command:
A good reference about Java version switching.
Since OS X 10.7 Java is not (pre-)installed anymore, let’s fix that. As I’m writing this, Java 11.0.4 is the latest version and AdoptOpenJDK is one of the best places to find Prebuilt OpenJDK Binaries. Easy to follow details about how to install OpenJDK are available here.
However, the easiest way is to select OpenJDK 11 (LTS), the HotSpot JVM, and macOS x64, which will expose two option like these:
Clicking on “Install JDK installer”, will download the OpenJDK installer package, e.g. OpenJDK11U-jdk_x64_mac_hotspot_11.0.4_11.pkg, which when executed, will install into this location: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-11.jdk
Clicking on “Install JDK installer”, will download the OpenJDK installer package, e.g. OpenJDK11U-jdk_x64_mac_hotspot_11.0.4_11.pkg, which when executed, will install into this location: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-11.jdk
Almost done. After opening a terminal, the successful installation of the JDK can be confirmed like so:
… hopefully showing something like this:
JAVA_HOME is an important environment variable and it’s important to get it right. Here is a trick that allows me to keep the environment variable current, even after a Java Update was installed. In ~/.zshrc, I set the variable like so:
In previous macOS versions, this was done in ~/.bash_profile. Now it’s done.
Source Code
The source code of the Java Platform, Standard Edition 11 Reference Implementations binaries is available under the GPLv2 in a single zip file.
Java 6 For Mac Os X Yosemite
API Specification
Download Java For Os X
The API Specification of the Java Platform, Standard Edition and Java Development Kit
can be found here: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/
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can be found here: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/
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