How to Revert to Java 1.6 on Mac OS X 10.7.5

Question

I have the 1.6 installer. I\'ve used it. It does not change my Java installation, nor say there is an older version, but it does complete the installation.

I\'ve bee

Answer 1

If you need to write code that you want to run on a previous version of Java then you can change the compile flags. This might be all you need and

eg.

javac -source 1.6 -target 1.6 MyClass.java

The source arg states that the source is written in that version of Java, thus List strings = new ArrayList<>(); would be a compile error. Target tells the compiler to compile byte code that is aimed at the specified version of the JVM. Though I think 1.7 is fully backwards compatible with 1.5 and 1.6.