You have to install the JDK to appear on the Java Preferences.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/webnotes/install/mac/mac-preferences.html
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You have to install the JDK to appear on the Java Preferences.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/webnotes/install/mac/mac-preferences.html
I installed the update, and the preference pane appears in System Preferences, but not in the Apple-made Java Preferences app, which I know was supposed to happen. Can I now delete the Java Preferences app?
They both can exist together. Applets will choose the version they need. For instance, the Harmanh Remote app uses Java, but won't run with 7 - I needed to have the Apple version enabled (v6). However, if I launch a Pogo game through Safari, it will use the latest release.
It was a bit confusing to me also, but with a little testing I found they both work fine, as needed. I might install the JDK, as according to what I've read here, it'll consolidate the control panels (I still havent read the linked Oracle info on this).
Yes, it does make it much easier to mod. I just get annoyed when the stupid startup screen makes my GPU run loud and takes 60% CPU (or 60/8 of my total processing power). The iOS version is actually quite different and not full-featured, but it's the same basic thing.
Now we're getting rather off-topic, but I've dealt with a lot of Exchange Server 2003 issues, and its worth checking on Entourage 2008 availability with your IT department. Exchange Server 2003, unlike all the newer versions, included a license for Outlook for every CAL. This is a huge reason businesses put off upgrading as long as possible. Anyway, if the company kept up on their software assurance plan with Microsoft, Microsoft upgraded the earlier Outlook 2003 offer by giving Exchange Server 2003 customers licenses for Outlook 2007 for PC and Entourage 2008 for Mac. They offered the actual installer via CD as well as via download. In my experience, universities and hosting services usually make it possible to just grab your free copy of Entourage online. Businesses, though, are pretty hit and miss, depending on how controlling the IT department is. But they very likely do have an already paid-for license of Entourage 2008 you can install. The only restriction is that copy of Entourage is licensed as part of the Exchange Server 2003 CAL, so when they do upgrade, your license is no longer valid -- though you'd want to use Outlook then anyway.
Then just grab Office 2011 for the MUCH improved other apps, and you can move past 10.6, assuming you don't have any other Rosetta-needing software.
Thousands of education, scientific, engineering, mathematics, and other vertical market applications that you've never heard of and wouldn't understand.
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Millions of scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and other highly skilled technical people, who made the Mac a respectable platform.
In *our* house, Java is important.
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No, that's not it. They hate Java because they're stupid and ignorant, and don't understand anything that falls outside of the dominant shiny-object aesthetics of mainstream Mac propaganda.
I suspect that if J7 isn't released via SU or MAS it's uptake will be fairly minimal. Most Mac users don't hang out on geek forums. Those who just want a computer that 'just works' will not hunt down stuff that's essentially invisible to them.
No, as noted above, Apple stopped doing this and handed over the reigns to Oracle.Keep checking the OS X Software Update [>Software Update]. Apple always releases their own versions of Java, with good reason.
Java and Javascript are not the same thing, they serve completely different ends.
My only use of Java, that I'm aware of that is, is for the admin panel of a couple of Netgear switches. Heaven only knows why they couldn't use a standard HTML interface like their other hardware.
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Lol no, i mean i updated java and now minecraft crashes when i try to open it, how do i get rid of the update to java?
Java is not exactly something you can sandbox/wrap-up in a self contained app bundle. As such, there's no way to put it on the Mac App Store.
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HTML5 is a client side technology and if you're talking about the actual HTML portion (not the DOM manipulation/Ecmascript portions to manipulate it), it's a mark-up language, not a programming language.
As a computer science student, you should understand what that means.
Stop repeating whatever you read on the Internet. Java isn't slow, especially not for the kind of work done in AP Computer Science.
Java now uses JIT compilation and thus whatever gets run on your hardware is not interpreted bytecode, it's native language that the JVM creates on the fly.
It also has vast librairies already written for it, enabling fast development and deployment without having to reinvent the wheel at each turn. It comes with mature garbage collection to top it off. There's nothing "turd" about it and the slow part is quite debatable.
Of course, you know all this being a Computer Science student... you wouldn't just repeat things you read on the Internet as gospel right ?
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A significant amount of Java [in the enterprise] isn't client, browser (applets), but server-side frameworks for web: page generation, transaction processing, middle-tier business objects, data access, and also web services that are often times consumed by iOS apps
Exactly. If anyone wants to read more about this topic and actually learn a thing or two, look up J2EE (the "Enterprise Edition" of Java, compared to J2SE, what you install on your desktop/laptop), EJB (Enterprise Java Beans), JDBC and JSP (Java Server Pages).
Also, this server-side code, usually deployed as either WAR or EAR files, is executed and managed by what is called an Application Server. A few of note to look up to get into the beat of things :
- Oracle Weblogic 11g Suite
- IBM Websphere
- JBoss (open source implementation)
All things you can read about quickly on Wikipedia before you decide to make comments about Java on forums. Could prevent you from posting credibility hurting posts. A lot of people here commenting without an idea of what is Java and what different Java technologies are out there.
Having different versions of the J2SE installed does not consume ressources beyond hard drive space and the JRE isn't that big to begin with.
Ok, that's understandable, although going forward you will find yourself increasingly left behind.
OT: Yes, Snow Leopard was fully supported on all Intel-based Macs that existed at the time. This includes all Macs, both 32-bit and 64-bit, from the initial transition from PPC to x86, all the way up until Snow Leopard was superseded by the release of Lion.
Side discussion : I find it funny some people stick to Rosetta and PPC code running emulated on x86 in some cases and want the latest and greatest in others.
Don't forget Tomcat (Apache)
I'm a java developer for a large corporation. I think people think that java is only used for applets. It's used server side by the majority of Fortune 500 companies in some capacity. It's not going anywhere.
You probably will not find any Java updates forthcoming from Apple for PPC-based machines ever again.
Apple did release an exceptionally unexpected patch for Leopard recently, to help mitigate the Flashback Trojan. Similar to their initial, quick-and-dirty patches for Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion, this patch removed any existing infections it found on your system and reduced the likelihood of contracting the malware with the blunt force approach of shutting Safari's Java plugin off by default.
But they only made this update available for Intel-based Leopard systems. They did not release anything similar for PPC-based Leopard systems. (This is understandable of course, considering the Flashback Trojan's payload cannot run on PPC-based CPUs.)
Also, although Apple did eventually release a patched version of Java for Snow Leopard and Lion that actually closes the vulnerability which allowed Flashback to run in the first place, Apple never did release such a patched version of Java for Leopard: neither for PPC nor Intel.
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The maker of TenFourFox, the final remaining web browser with modern features for PPC based Macs that is still receiving regular updates, has decided to shut off support for all binary plugins entirely. In their opinion, given that none of the major plugin vendors are still releasing updates for PPC anymore, their very continued existence constitutes an unacceptable security threat.
In summary, in today's Internet, if you have a legitimate need to visit a website that requires the front-end use of Java, then now is the time to retire your PPC-based Mac in favor of something a little more modern.
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64-bit plug-in + 32-bit browswer = FAIL!
I installed this Java update. It's 64-bit. I then discovered that Google Chrome, which I prefer to Safari, is 32-bit. So Java is broken for Chrome.
Does anyone know if either a 32-bit Java 7 plug-in or a 64-bit Chrome app is available?
I installed this Java update. It's 64-bit. I then discovered that Google Chrome, which I prefer to Safari, is 32-bit. So Java is broken for Chrome.
Does anyone know if either a 32-bit Java 7 plug-in or a 64-bit Chrome app is available?
Seems like this JRE build does not work for Java applications that are run locally on Mac OS. All of the Java applications still use Apple's JRE 1.60_33. I guess Java 7 only works for browser applets as a web plugin.
Just set your JAVA_HOME accordingly and it'll get used. Just make sure any Java application you try to run on the OpenJDK 7 JRE is compatible as OpenJDK 7 drops quite a few things that J2SE 6 supported.
Java SE RE7 installs successfully but where is it?
Went here, downloaded and successfully installed jre-7u6-macosx-x64.dmg but when I open /Utilities/Java Preferences/ I see only references to Java SE 6. Turns out that there is a new preference panel in System Preferences > Other. I imagine this will be a source of much confusion. Unfortunately for me, this upgrade does not fix the drag and drop interface in Java applets such as JFileUpload.
Went here, downloaded and successfully installed jre-7u6-macosx-x64.dmg but when I open /Utilities/Java Preferences/ I see only references to Java SE 6. Turns out that there is a new preference panel in System Preferences > Other. I imagine this will be a source of much confusion. Unfortunately for me, this upgrade does not fix the drag and drop interface in Java applets such as JFileUpload.
I'm getting left behind, but there are some Rosetta apps I just don't want to give up. Eventually, I might just upgrade and keep a Snow Leopard virtual machine just for old apps. Fortunately, my computer is good enough at multitasking for this.