I have to get Leopard first, now using Tiger, the newest possible Java is
5.0.

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Sean Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Intel-based too? then you should certainly be OK. I think it's just an
> automatic update you get. You can go into Applicatons -> Utilities ->
> Java -> Java Preferences and there change the default version of Java
> to 6, so that by default "java" and "javac" use the Java 6 version.
>
> The only extra thing I have had to do is edit my ~/.profile file (I
> assume you use bash) to include
>
> export
> JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Home
> export JDK_HOME=$JAVA_HOME
>
> This is needed to make sure that some other command line tools use the
> right version of Java, like Ant.
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Xiance SI(司宪策) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I checked my macbook and found it a 64 bit machine, that's good. Maybe
> this
> > is
> > my right time to switch to Java 6. :) We have a small hadoop cluster for
> > research
> > and Java 5/6 problem has bothered me a long time.
>

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