Java 6 on Mac OS X
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009I used to be a hardcore Linux user before I got my Mac. Being a Linux / Unix user you are used to scratching our own itch. When I moved to the Mac I sort of got used to having everything integrated and well configurable. Well that is until I installed Java 6. After installing Java 6 the current version (Java 5) remained the active version.
So to scratch my own itch I just set some environment variables and put a few links here and there and I was done. However a collegue of mine ran into the same problem on his wife’s Mac. Since I didn’t want them to go through the same mess I went through I tried another search on how to properly activate Java 6. And I found it right here. Isn’t that brilliant? You gotta love your Mac.