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I am running this command on OSX
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5/Home/bin/java -version
and the response is
java version "1.6.0_17“
Is there any way to really run an older version of Java without downloading to a makeshift location?
OSX 10.6.2.
Only Java 6 is available on Snow Leopard. The JavaVM framework has links for 1.4 and 1.5, but both of those links point to “CurrentJDK”, which in turn points to 1.6, so even if you invoke the
javaexecutables in the 1.5 directory, you still get the 1.6 (Java 6) executable.If you really need (32-bit) Java 5, you can get it by following these instructions.