macOS updating leopards default jdk

[fromalk]

Hello everyone,

I'm about to install netbeans for School use, however on windows we use the jdk 6. I just noticed that the default jdk in leopard is version 5. Can anyone explain me how I can update this to version 6?

Regards Stijn

 

[robbieduncan]

My understanding is that at this moment in time there is no public way to do this. If you are a paid up ADC member there might be seeds of Java 6 for OSX available, but we can't discuss those without breaking NDA.

 

[fromalk]

I am indeed a paid ADC member, (just a studet account). However I didn't think of this, I'll have a look at what I can find

Regards Stijn

 

[robbieduncan]

In that case sign in, go to downloads and the Java and you should find something 😀

 

[goodinbed]

So, have you managed to put netbeans running java 6?
I downloaded from ADC the javase6 dp8, installed, but now i don't know what to do...