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Apple Releases Java Updates for Snow Leopard and Leopard

Why would Apple still keep Java SE 5 in Leopard?

Oh yeah, just downloaded both updates (before and after installing SL LOL).
 
kbmb said:
What's with requiring a reboot for Java?
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One important reason is that this update contains security fixes.

With security updates, a reboot is typically required in order to ensure that any server daemons or long-running applications are also restarted. Otherwise, you could end up with some old server app you've forgotten about still sitting in the background running the old code and your system would still be vunerable.
 
adder7712 said:
Why would Apple still keep Java SE 5 in Leopard?

Oh yeah, just downloaded both updates (before and after installing SL LOL).
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Apple doesn't want to support Java SE 6 on PowerPC Macs for some reason. Therefore, Java SE 5 has to stick around. That's not the only reason though. Java SE 5 has reached EOL (End Of Life) but not EOSL (End Of Service Life), so Sun will still update Java SE 5 on an as-needed basis. I presume this will continue until Java SE 7 is officially released.
 
I have started another thread on this, but the issue relates to this java update. Did anyone not get prompted for the admin password when installing this? I would have thought it would have been a requirement for this type of update.

I am running on an admin account on 10.6.2. I have already tried repairing permissions but when installing cyberduck and adium, they also didn't not ask for my admin password.
 
Cyberduck and Adium are drag-to-install applications, so no prompt is completely normal in this case, when running on an admin account. As for the question about the update itself, I got that with another update. I believe it is caused by a Snow Leopard-specific bug.
 
pmjoe said:
No Java SE 6 on Mac OS X 10.5 for PPC.
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Crikey, even more confusing:

Mac OS X 10.6 (Intel)
32 bit Java SE 6
64 bit Java SE 6
No Java SE 5

Mac OS X 10.5 (Intel)
No 32 bit Java SE 6
64 bit Java SE 6 (Intel)
32 bit Java SE 5 (PPC, Intel)
64 bit Java SE 5 (PPC, Intel)
 
Hooray, they fixed the bug I filed

back in August, but it actually is nice to know that Apple's engineers actually read and respond to those bug reports.
 
Update worked for me.

I used to get the "Java is not working or not installed" message when going on my school's web portal site, but now, no messages to click away :D
 
Did this update give anyone else an "unrepairable" permission? It gave me one for a file in my user folder (don't remember the name off head...it was short though). Running repair permission seems to fix it but anytime i verify it, the permission is incorrect again :confused:
 
pmjoe said:
That's because there isn't a Java SE 6 from Apple for PPC. It's just a statement of fact. The second sentence regarding CPU is the equivalent to to this statement for Mac OS X 10.5:

"This release of J2SE 5.0 supports all Intel and PowerPC-based Macs. Java SE 6 is available on 64-bit Intel-based Macs only."

Of course, that's poorly phrased too, because J2SE 5.0 is only supported on Intel Macs running Leopard, not Snow Leopard.
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Does this have anything to do with my daily reports to Apple about Safari 4 crashes?

It just seems like every update makes Safari more and more unusable, particularly on PowerPC machines. :(
 
Apple Fails

If you use eclipse or flex builder DO NOT update your Java it will make it so you can't even open eclipse or flex builder anymore and you'll have to reinstall your operating system to get it to work.
 
the.godfather said:
If you use eclipse or flex builder DO NOT update your Java it will make it so you can't even open eclipse or flex builder anymore and you'll have to reinstall your operating system to get it to work.
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Uh oh. I haven't tried to open eclipse or flex builder (trial still) but now I'm afraid. Luckily I'm not working on anything requiring either right now.
 
the.godfather said:
If you use eclipse or flex builder DO NOT update your Java it will make it so you can't even open eclipse or flex builder anymore and you'll have to reinstall your operating system to get it to work.
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You could have maybe tried replacing (backup first!) /System/Library/JavaVM.framework with a backup from before the update.

I did this once to roll back and it worked.
 
JSE 5.0 32 bit crashes after the update

I connect to work by using citrix and a Juniper Networks Java applet that requires JSE 5.0 32 bit. I was happy until a week ago when I installed the update and now every single Java webpage makes Safari and Firefox crash......

1) can this be fixed?
2) can I uninstall the Java update?

your help is much appreciated
Albaid
 
Most of Java Apps hang after the Java Update on OSX 10.6

After updating Java for MacOS 10.6 (EFI64) most of my java based apps hang when starting. Probably the problem is related to security issues.
If as user i execute "java -version" I get a segmantation fault!
As root this not happens.
Any ideas
 
igab said:
After updating Java for MacOS 10.6 (EFI64) most of my java based apps hang when starting. Probably the problem is related to security issues.
If as user i execute "java -version" I get a segmantation fault!
As root this not happens.
Any ideas
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Doesn't happen to me, SL on MBP5,5 K64.
Try repairing permissions or reinstalling the update.
 
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