need ideas for how to name incremental jdk builds to be findable by /usr/libexec/java_home (original) (raw)

Scott Kovatch scott.kovatch at oracle.com
Fri Feb 24 14:24:35 PST 2012

On Feb 24, 2012, at 2:02 PM, Stephen Bannasch wrote:

At 11:02 AM -0800 2/24/12, Scott Kovatch wrote:

Are you building the JDK yourself? If so you want to set

export JDKUPDATEVERSION=04 and then you'll see Matching Java Virtual Machines (2): 1.7.004, x8664: "OpenJDK 7" /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.004.jdk/Contents/Home Thanks Scott, that worked: $ /usr/libexec/javahome -v 1.7 -V Matching Java Virtual Machines (2): 1.7.0, x8664: "OpenJDK 7" ~/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk/Contents/Home 1.7.004, x8664: "OpenJDK 7" ~/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.004-20120224.jdk/Contents/Home BUT ... the new jdk still doesn't show up running this app: /Applications/Utilities/Java\ Preferences.app I'm on 10.6 ... and I realize the plan is to stop supporting the 'Java Preferences' app but I am surprised that the 1.7.004 JDK doesn't show up.

I don't have 10.6, but 1.7.0 JVMs show up in Java Preferences in 10.7. It could be that, but I don't think so. Mike can confirm.

I thought this was because Java 7 can't be used for bundled Java apps that use JavaApplicationStub. This panel controls the order in which JVMs are scanned for a version that matches the JVMVersion in the Info.plist. But you should also be able to drag Java 7 to the top of that list so it can be used as the default Java for the command line.

-- Scott K.

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