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Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 17 latest java version?

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Appletise

macrumors regular
Original poster
Sep 19, 2012
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I am running OSX 10.9.4 (Mavericks) on a Retina Macbook Pro,
l have a brokers software that depends on java. l am currently running java version: 1.6.0_65, do l just go to http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1573 to download update 17? which is the latest version? when l had a pc l was instructed to uninstall the old java version first. do we have to do this with mac? if so how?
 
Sciuriware

Sciuriware

macrumors 6502a
Jan 4, 2014
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Gelderland
About APPLE's JAVA: I may expect that updates come to us automatically,
or from the App Store command.
I would leave it alone while some applications still rely on it.
It seems that ECLIPSE still uses 6, while the compiler supports 8.
I installed ORACLE's JAVA 7 (soon 8) without uninstalling JAVA 6.

Another observation: I tried installing newer releases from ORACLE without
uninstalling the previous release: this gave me strange errors.
So, as it is so easy on OSX, I just move the previous JAVA release to the Trash
every time.
;JOOP!
 
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