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:

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The directory end up looking like this:

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I not sure how trustworthy the JDK I've downloaded is, though. :(