Ok - thanks Jim.

Ben

On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Jim Laskey (Oracle)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Ben,
>
> You have to take it up with Apple.  java, javac et al links were 'built' into 
> the OS when Apple controlled Java on Mac OS X.  What you have now are ghosts 
> from the past.  jjs has been added since Apple handed java maintenance over 
> to Oracle.  What you have now are ghosts from the past.  Currently, each user 
> has to manually (cd /usr/bin/ ;  ln -s $JAVA_HOME/bin/jjs jjs) .
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Jim
>
>
>
> On May 8, 2014, at 9:01 AM, Ben Evans <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It's great having JDK 8 as the "system JDK" on Mac now, but it looks
>> like the current packaging doesn't put jjs into this directory:
>>
>> /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Commands/
>>
>> which is the location that files from /usr/bin should target.
>>
>> Is there somewhere more official I should report this? Details of my
>> use case below:
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> Mac OS 10.7.5
>>
>> $ java -version
>> java version "1.8.0_05"
>> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_05-b13)
>> Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.5-b02, mixed mode)
>>
>> $ which java
>> /usr/bin/java
>

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