Tim, hello.
> On 2015 Apr 13, at 16:15, Tim Jenness <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Are you sure that the java preferences panel is still available in Yosemite? I no longer seem to have it. The /usr/libexec/java_home trick does work for me.
I certain have the panel (I'm on 10.10.2, which I think is Yosemite), but it doesn't look like an Apple-supplied one (it's in the bottom row, and looks a bit ... off), so it may have been installed by Oracle. Hmm: the associated file modification dates are February and March this year, which might indeed be the last time I installed an Oracle-supplied Java, so that could well be where it came from.
Doing 'defaults read | grep -i java', everything that appears is associated either with WebKit or with Oracle. I don't know where /usr/libexec/java_home's configuration lives.
> I think Apple were more than happy for Oracle to take on java support. Java never really became a key language on the Mac.
...so they stopped caring so much how it looked. That sounds right.
See you,
Norman
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SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK
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