Java 11 The implementations of Java 8, 9, 10, and 11 based on from vendors such as, and run on macOS High Sierra and Mojave (and some older macOS as well). Java 12, not yet released for production, runs on High Sierra as well. LTS Note that some versions of Java are designated for Long-Term Support (LTS).
Versions 8 and 11 are both LTS. This means the version will receive updates and fixes for years instead of months. This applies, at least, customers paying a commercial vendor. Free-of-cost implementations may also receive updates under LTS from some providers. We’ve yet to see if that happens or not. This approach using rapid delivery train with LTS is new in the Java world. To learn more, read.
Note Note: I'm generally a fan of Apple and own many of their products. My primary computer is a MacBook Pro, which I wouldn't trade for anything. But Apple has really screwed this one up. Apple has hurt its users who develop in Java by declaring an end to Java support but continuing to update Java 6 using its automatic update program. This means that installing Oracle Java 7 JDK is a hassle to begin with, and if you blindly accept all of Apple's software updates (that is, you don't remember to uncheck Java updates when they appear) you'll have to re-do parts of your Java 7 installation from time to time because Apple's Java updates reset all the symlinks to point to its own Java 6. In any case, here's what you need to do to install and use Java 7 on Mac OS X and fix Apples 'updates' if they slip by you.
At the time of this writing the current Java 7 is update 17 (jdk1.7.017). First Time Java 7 Installation Get the Java 7 JDK (not JRE) from here:. You want the Mac OS X x64 download (I couldn't provide a direct link becuase the page I linked in the previous sentence requires you to accept a license agreement). It's a.dmg (disk image) containing a package installer. Double click the package installer, enter your password when prompted, and your new Java 7 JDK will be installed in a few minutes.
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This step only places the JDK on your hard disk. Now you have to set a few symlinks so that you can actually use it. Figuring Out if You Have Apple's Java 6 Apple installs its JDK in /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines. If you have Apple's JDK and the symlinks are set up for it, perhaps after you've followed these instructions but then allowed Apple's Software Update to install a Java update, you can find out with java -version or by seeing where the symlink at usr/bin/java points. If java -version prints something like 'Java 1.6' (the important part being the '1.6') or the symlink at usr/bin/java points to /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines (note that Apple installs under /System/Library, Oracle installs under /Library), then you need to follow the rest of these instructions. If you use an older version of Java, like Apple's Java 6 and try to write programs that use Java class files that were compiled with a newer version of Java you may see an error like this: warning:./Location.class: major version 51 is newer than 50, the highest major version supported by this compiler.
It is recommended that the compiler be upgraded. This message means you're using Java 1.6 (version 50) with pre-compiled.class files that were compiled with Java 1.7 (version 51). In general, you can use the Java disassembler, javap to find out which version of Java was used to compile a class. Note Note: the '$' character is the shell prompt. In the example shell interactions in this guide, the commands you type will appear after a shell prompt. $ javap -verbose Location.class head Classfile /Users/chris/Downloads/PacmanSkeleton/Location.class Last modified Mar 8, 2013; size 1241 bytes MD5 checksum 2e22b98aa3c1fb2bb3a06e5cd4f2fd24 Compiled from 'Location.java' public class Location SourceFile: 'Location.java' minor version: 0 major version: 51 flags: ACCPUBLIC, ACCSUPER Constant pool: Note that I piped the output of javap -verbose through head because it prints a ton of information. Note You don't have permission on the directories that contain the JDK and the system's java command.
So you'll need to execute your commands that modify these directories as the root user, a.k.a. The superuser. You can do that on a per-command basis by prepending your commands with sudo.
These instructions have sudo prepended, so you can simply copy and paste them into your command line. Note that sudo will ask you for your password and it will not be echoed as you type it. Just type it and press ENTER. Remove Apple's JVMs: $ sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/ Remove installer records: $ sudo rm /private/var/db/receipts/com.apple.pkg.JavaForMacOSX.
Remove intaller receipts by editing /Library/Receipts/InstallHistory.plist and removing any. Entries that contain references to Apple's Java. You can recognize these dict entries because they'll have child elements that contain com.apple.
You can leave Oracle's installation receipts alone. It's a bit tedious editing this file. I found the dict elements by searching for ava. Note that you'll need to edit this file as the superuser, for example by doing: $ sudo emacs /Library/Receipts/InstallHistory.plist Once you've removed all these traces of Apple's Java 6 install, Apple's software update should not (re)install Java 6 and you should only need to reset your symlinks when you install a new JDK from Oracle. Optional: JAVAHOME Some Java software, like Tomcat, require that you set an environment variable named JAVAHOME. The convention in Mac OS X is to make a symlink named /Library/Java/Home and assign it to your JAVAHOME environment variable.
That way you don't have to remember to update your JAVAHOME environment variable when you install a new JDK, but you do have to update the symlink. The following assumes you already have a /Library/Java/Home symlink (Apple's installer used to set it, I think. Maybe it still does.) $ sudo rm /Library/Java/Home $ sudo ln -s /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.017.jdk/Contents/Home /Library/Java/Home. The Terminal Apple provides a fairly decent terminal emulator in /Applications/Terminal.app. Go ahead and put this in your dock. If you're a CS major, you'll use it every day.
Terminal provides you with command shell known as BASH (Bourne Again Shell). A shell is a program that allows a user to interact directly with the operating system. You're already familiar with graphical shells that include things like file explorers, start menus, and control panels. Command line shells, at least the ones on Unix, are far more powerful than graphical shells, so you need to learn one, and BASH is by far the most popular. The rest of these instructions are BASH commands that take place in Terminal.
The PATH Unix (and Windows) maintains a set of global variables accessible to all programs called environment variables. You can get a list of them with the env command (I've only shown a few interesting ones here): $ env TERMPROGRAM =AppleTerminal SHELL =/bin/bash PATH =/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin JAVAFXHOME =/Library/Java/Home PWD =/System/Library/Java JAVAHOME =/Library/Java/Home PS1 = 033 32;1m u@ h w n $ 033 0m HOME =/Users/chris LOGNAME =chris The important environment variable to note for now is the PATH variable.
The PATH variable contains a colon-separated list of directory paths that contain executable files (commands). When you type a command at the shell prompt, the directories in PATH are searched for a match. You can find out exactly which executable file will be executed in response to a particular command with the which command: $ which java /usr/bin/java As you can see, the java command on Mac OS X is contained in the /usr/bin directory, but its a symbolic link to the actual locatoin of the java executable. You can see this by getting a 'long' directory listing of it (the -l switch to the ls command gives detailed info about directory entries).
$ ls -l /usr/bin/java lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 72 Mar 13 23:36 /usr/bin/java - /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.017.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java That '-' in the directory listing means it's a symbolic link. Symbolic Links A link is a pointer to a file or a directory, kind of like a reference variable. A hard link is a directory entry that points to a file on disk.
Every file has (at least) one hard link. A symbolic link, or soft link, is a directory entry that points to a hard link, like an alias.
You create symbolic links with the ln -s command. (You can also create hard links, but don't.) When you remove the last hard link to a file, you can no longer access the file. This is what generally happens when you delete a file. The directory entry for it (hard link) is gone, but the contents remain on disk until they are overwritten. When you delete a directory entry that's a symlink, only the symlink is gone.
The file and its hard link remain. Here's a simple example. We create a text file named foo.txt containing the text 'bar' and a symlink to foo.txt named baz.txt. How to download and use utorrent for mac free. The general form of the ln -s command is ln -s. $ echo 'bar' foo.txt $ cat foo.txt bar $ ln -s foo.txt baz.txt $ ls -l total 16 lrwxr-xr-x 1 chris staff 7 Mar 13 22:46 baz.txt - foo.txt -rw-r-r- 1 chris staff 4 Mar 13 22:45 foo.txt $ cat baz.txt bar As you can see, the symbolic link acts just like the original hard link. The Unix File System The Unix file system is organized as a tree.
There is a root directory, /, and a tree of directories under /. Just like in other operating systems' file systems, every directory entry has an owner, a group, and access permissions. The important thing you need to know for now is that you don't have permission on the directories that contain the JDK and the system's java command.
So you'll need to execute your commands that modify these directories as the root user, a.k.a. The superuser. You can do that on a per-command basis by prepending your commands with sudo. These instructions have sudo prepended, so you can simply copy and paste them into your command line. Note that sudo will ask you for your password and it will not be echoed as you type it.
Just type it and press ENTER. The Windows file system is organized as a forrest with possibly multiple roots at C:, D:, and so on. Windows directories are also tightly bound to disk partitions, i.e., C: and D: are the roots of filesystems on different disk partitions.