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Mac OS X was still thinking that it should use Java 1.6 as a default JVM.
Even after running
Even after running
i still wasn't able to make java 1.7 as a default one. After some googling i came up to this article . The layout of the article itself is really messed up, but i decided to keep it for myself and make it look nicer :) . So, here's what you need to do :
- First you download JDK installer from Oracle
- Then you open terminal and do next :
- Restart your terminal, and if you did everything properly, you'll see :
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- I downloaded the JDK from Oracle. They have a nice dmg file, which makes it easy to install.
- After reading their installation instructions and running /usr/libexec/java_home (which I didn't even know about), it still wasn't defaulting to JDK 7.
Surgery required. So, I headed over to:
This is where the system jvm's are stored. You'll notice a symbolic link for CurrentJDK. It probably points to:
You're going to want to point that to the new JDK, which java_home tells us is located in:
So, the magic commands you need are:
Then, you should be good:
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