Don't make the mistake that I did and think you can simply change the symlink to point to the directory with Java 1.5 -- it actually has to be placed where the symlink is.
For posterity-- The below is from my email on the topic from April 12, 2010: ---- OS-X Snow Leopard tips: For those in a similar situation, the work-around posted in AVRO-318 makes Java 5 the default for most apps and overrides Java 6. But turning off Java 6 is not necessary. Getting a copy of Java 1.5 and placing it in /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0 and setting up the links is sufficient. You do not have to make Java 1.5 the default and can continue to use Java 1.6 for everything but Forrest. I used the first few steps here: http://wiki.oneswarm.org/index.php/OS_X_10.6_Snow_Leopard but stopped after recreating the symbolic links. Additionally, the build.xml will not run without passing in -Djava5.home=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home -Dforrest.home=<location of Forrest>. ---- On May 31, 2010, at 11:31 PM, Jeff Hodges wrote: > Sigh, I didn't notice the symlink before. That's what's happening. Thanks. > -- > Jeff > > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Scott Carey <[email protected]> wrote: >> Are you on Snow Leopard? If so, you manually have to install a copy of Java >> 5 and overwrite the Mac symlinks in just the right way. You don't have to >> change the default system JVM to 1.5 though. >> >> Does the symlink /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0 >> point to a 1.6 JVM? That is what it does on Snow Leopard by default. >> forrest is somehow not forward compatible with Java 1.6. The trick to >> getting it to work is to both set the property to that symlink, and make >> sure that symlink points to an actual java 1.5 install. >> >> There are a few threads from the Avro dev list over the past ~7 months that >> discuss the steps needed to get it to work in more detail. >> >> -Scott >> >> On May 31, 2010, at 10:49 PM, Jeff Hodges wrote: >> >>> Hey, >>> I'm running into issues build the docs. Specifically, in avro trunk, >>> I'm running: >>> >>> ant >>> -Djava5.home=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home >>> -Dforrest.home=/Users/jhodges/projects/apache-forrest-0.8/ doc >>> >>> on OS X. Hoever, I'm getting this gross error for which all the google >>> results say "RTFM n00b. Use Java5." >>> >>> [exec] validate-sitemap: >>> [exec] >>> /Users/jhodges/projects/apache-forrest-0.8/main/webapp/resources/schema/relaxng/sitemap-v06.rng:72:31: >>> error: datatype library "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes"; >>> not recognized >>> >>> But I've included -Djava5.home right there. What am I missing? >>> -- >>> Jeff >> >>
