[jbdevstudio-users] JBDS 7 on OS X requires JDK 6

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Welcome to the wonderful world of how Java became really hard to use when Apple decided to drop their own java distribution and let Oracle take over instead.

When you run 'java' on OSX it will use the apple provided java binary and if you haven't installed the Oracle *JDK* I don't think oracle's distribution takes over.

Thus be sure whatever 'java' you use is actually the java from Oracle if you want to install with Java 7.

You can of course just use Apple's provided Java to run the installer and then in the installer point to the oracle jdk when the installer asks which Java version to use.

p.s. The visual page editor feature in JBDS requires a 32-bit VM and Oracle's Java 7 only provide 64 bit. Thus you will loose that feature by going to Java 7 on OSX. But that is the only thing that should be affected. Mind you, that you can run JBDS with Java 6 but use Java 7 or any other VM when running whatever server you wish to use. Giving you the best of both worlds as it stands today.

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