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Mac users interested in Java jdk generally download: Java 1.7 Free Java allows you to play online games, chat with people around the world, calculate your mortgage interest, and view images in 3D. These downloads are intended for established users, and contain the latest IBM fixes and Oracle updates to the Java SE application programming interfaces (APIs). To take advantage of new capabilities in the SDK, users are encouraged to move to the latest version. Java Jdk 1.7 Download For Mac Os X Java Runtime Environment (JRE) allows you to play online games, chat with people around the world, calculate your mortgage interest, and view images in. It doesn't look good on a retina display Macbook Pro either. I'm also very confused by this blog post: Font rendering: Apple JDK 6 vs Oracle JDK 1.7.040 When I run the IntelliJ 13 EAPs with JDK 1.7.040-b43 (with 11pt Menlo in the editor), the font rendering looks far far from being a native OS X program (which are rendered by Quartz).
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To get JDK 7 up,
- I downloaded the JDK from Oracle. They have a nice dmg file, which makes it easy to install.
- After reading their installation instructions and running /usr/libexec/java_home (which I didn't even know about), it still wasn't defaulting to JDK 7.
Surgery required. So, I headed over to:
This is where the system jvm's are stored. You'll notice a symbolic link for CurrentJDK. It probably points to:
You're going to want to point that to the new JDK, which java_home tells us is located in:
So, the magic commands you need are:
Then, you should be good:
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