Need help with Java on OSX

[Blondie769]

Im trying [really hard] to download Java on my OSX. Not programming or w/e, i dont now what all that means 🙁 i just want to download something and make java applications show up correctly. fairly new to mac and on a very new computer, very little tinkering. please help me! is there a simple way to do this? in the windows days there was just a big green button that said "Download". *sigh*

 

[Schroedinger]

Software Update (under the Apple menu) should pull down and install Java updates for you automatically. If that isn't working for you, go here:
http://search.info.apple.com/?search=Go&lr=lang_en&kword=&type=&newstype=&q=java

and pull the appropriate update.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Mac OS X comes with a version of Java 1.4. Java 5 has since been made available via Software Update. If you need Java 6 I'm afraid you're out of luck for the time being 🙁