I want java to be installed in my leopard macbook. But cudnt find the jdk kit for mac in sun java site. Where shud i look for it?
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It comes with the OS.
Try "java -version" in Terminal.
Apple is maintaining this version, not Sun. It gets updated using Software Update, and there may be downloads (for beta versions) at the Apple Developer Connection site.
Thilo
2010-03-26 10:23:38
"java" is part of the JRE, not the JDK. To check the JDK version, use "javac -version"
mjustin
2010-03-26 11:53:53
Java is also part of the JDK, it may simply redirect to ../jre/bin/java, but it's added.
Chris Kaminski
2010-03-26 15:11:50
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You need to install the Xcode developer tools. The JDK is included there. Before you do that, though, you can check if it is already installed by using javac -version. To find out where it is located, you can run the command which javac, although it will most likely be a symlink to somewhere else.
Michael Aaron Safyan
2010-03-26 10:24:35
@Thilo, thanks. I'm not sure, that's why I pointed him to check.
Michael Aaron Safyan
2010-03-26 10:28:26
Even with dev tools, you need to install the API docs separately. http://developer.apple.com/ or http://developers.sun.com/downloads/
trashgod
2010-03-26 15:34:03
@trashgod, who wants to waste the space for that? IMHO, the online docs are good enough: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/
Michael Aaron Safyan
2010-03-26 20:33:50
trashgod
2010-03-26 21:09:04
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You may want to try soylatte or openJDK from Mac Ports . Also, Apple has download section of java too ( http://developer.apple.com/java/download/ ) you didn't tell what architecture you are using which has some impact.
radekg
2010-03-26 10:29:15
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The JDK is already installed on Mac OS X 10.5. If you go to /Applications/Utilities you will see Java Preferences. There you can select between the versions of Java you would like to use, including version 6 (6 is only 64-bit so if you have a 32-bit Core Duo Macbook you'll have to use SoyLatte).
Mark Robinson
2010-03-26 12:51:11