Does Snow Leopard provide Java 6 for 32-bit machines?
There has been some speculation that Apple's Snow Leopard would finally include a version of Java 6 that works on 32-bit Intel hardware. Now that the OS has been released, can anybody confirm whether or not this is the case?
If anybody here has installed Snow Leopard on a 32-bit machine, could you please run the following command and report the output?
java -version
I have a 32-bit only Mac and did a fresh install of Snow Leopard. It is an original black MacBook (model 1,1).
Here is the output for 'java -version' which would be the default java version (as of initial Snow Leopard launch, 10.6.0):
java version "1.6.0_15" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_15-b03-219) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 14.1-b02-90, mixed mode)
Update: As of today, OS X 10.6.4 we have:
$ java -version java version "1.6.0_20" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_20-b02-279-10M3065) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 16.3-b01-279, mixed mode)
I installed this morning. Looking in "Java Preferences", this is the info I have:
Java SE 6 64 bit
Java SE 6 32 bit
My machine is a 64 bit, but if the 32 bit version is available to me, I don't see why they would not make it available to people using 32 bit machines.
I came across this link.
I needed Java 1.5 for legacy app.
I've follow the instructions there and now I'm able to choose from:
The directory end up looking like this:
I not sure how trustworthy the JDK I've downloaded is, though. :(