or below a certain version of Java, here are Apple's Java for 10.5 Updates. dylib in /usr/lib/java (four of these are regular files, the other four are symlinks if you prefer, you can copy just the files and recreate the symlinks by hand). the com directory in /System/Library/Java.This is based on Getting back the Cocoa-Java bridge in Snow Leopard:Ĭopy from a working Leopard (10.5) installation the following folders: In the instructions above, the same applies for version 1.4.2.In Pacifist, select 1.5 and 1.5.0, Control-click on the selection, and chose Install to Default Location from the pop-up menu.In Pacifist, drill down into Contents » System » Library » Frameworks » amework » Versions.Don’t skip this step, because otherwise the extraction will follow the symlinks and overwrite the contents of the 1.6.0 folder, oops! First use Finder to go to System » Library » Frameworks » amework » Versions and delete the two aliases (symlinks) 1.5 and 1.5.0.Use the excellent shareware utility Pacifist to open the downloaded file.

Download the official Java package from Apple: Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 4, dated June 15, 2009.

The following is based on two blog posts: Using Java 1.5 and Java 1.4 on Snow Leopard and Installing Java 1.5 on Snow Leopard: Installing Java 1.4.2 and/or Java 1.5 on snow Leopard: For example, getting PDFLab working again in Snow Leopard requires reinstalling Java 1.4.2 and the Cocoa-Java bridge. Reinstalling the Cocoa-Java bridge along with the proper version of Java is necessary to re-enable these applications on Snow Leopard. As an example, Apple also removed the Cocoa-Java bridge from Snow Leopard, which some Java applications such as PDFLab depended on. For these applications, re-installing Java 1.4.2 and/or Java 1.5 is necessary. However, your favorite application may not have a Snow Leopard compatible upgrade. Upgrading to the lastest versions of many applications usually will solve the problem. Many applications that relied on Java 1.4.2 and Java 1.5 stopped working in Snow Leopard, because Apple removed these Java versions from the system.

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