Re: Setting default Java

On Jul 30, 2009, at 8:14 AM, James Rome wrote:

> I used the Java preferences app in Applications/Utilities to change  
> Java to 1.6.
>
> But /Library/Home/Java/Home still points to 1.5. How do I change this?

Don't worry about /Library/Java/Home, it's only there for backwards  
compatibility with really old apps. Set your $JAVA_HOME to the output  
of /usr/libexec/java_home instead. It tracks the setting in Java  
Preferences.app, which is set for your user, unlike symlinks on disk  
that have to be modified by root, and affect every user.

If you need something to put in your .bashrc file, try this:

export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home`

Cheers,
Mike Swingler
Java Runtime Engineer
Apple Inc.
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