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

I ran into a similar problem. After having installed JDK7, some of my applications no longer worked. I needed to revert back to JDK6, and I did it differently. I noticed that in my /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/, it showed the following:

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   10 Oct 25 17:01 1.4 -> CurrentJDK
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   10 Oct 25 17:01 1.4.2 -> CurrentJDK
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   10 Oct 25 17:01 1.5 -> CurrentJDK
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   10 Oct 25 17:01 1.5.0 -> CurrentJDK
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   10 Oct 25 17:01 1.6 -> CurrentJDK
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   10 Oct 25 17:01 1.6.0 -> CurrentJDK
drwxr-xr-x  8 root  wheel  272 Oct 25 18:06 A
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    1 Oct 25 17:01 Current -> A
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   59 Nov 20 21:40 CurrentJDK -> /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_45.jdk/Contents/

so I removed the symbolic link CurrentJDK

 sudo rm CurrentJDK

and re-created the symbolic link pointing to JDK6, which is still on my Mac

sudo ln -s  /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/ CurrentJDK

and that did the trick for me

java -version
   java version "1.6.0_65"
   Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_65-b14-462-11M4609)
   Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.65-b04-462, mixed mode)