My current JDK on Mac OS (10.6) is set to 1.6 and I d like to switch to 1.5.
A listing of /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/ shows:
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 Nov 3 18:34 1.5 -> CurrentJDK
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 Nov 3 18:34 1.5.0 -> CurrentJDK
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5 Nov 3 18:34 1.6 -> 1.6.0
drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 272 Nov 3 19:54 1.6.0
drwxr-xr-x 9 root wheel 306 Nov 3 19:54 A
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1 Nov 3 18:34 Current -> A
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3 Nov 3 18:34 CurrentJDK -> 1.6
Aside from attempting to install 1.5 and then change the symlink for CurrentJDK from 1.6 to 1.5, is there anything else that needs to be done?
Do I also need to change what Current is pointing to? The A directory seems to contain the Headers and the binary executables (javac, jar, etc).
Will another version of the JDK install a second directory for it s version of the executables (hopefully in a separate directory) or are they independent of the JDK version?
FYI: I ve run the Java Preferences utility and only Java SE 6 (32 & 64-bit versions) is listed under both Java Apple Plugin and Java Applications