Mac Java FAQ: I'm currently using Mac OS/X 10.4 with Java 1.5.x. But, for a certain application I need to use a previous version of Java, which I can see is actually installed on the hard drive. Can I use this older Java JVM on Mac OS X 10.4?
Answer: Yes, I was able to do this. The hardest part about this is finding where the previous Java version is installed. There are probably easier ways to do it, but I ended up using the Mac mdfind command, which is the command-line version of Spotlight.
After a lot of grep commands ... I created a shell script that looks like this to let me run this older Mac Java JVM:
#!/bin/sh
JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.4.2
PATH=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.4.2/Commands/:${PATH}
java -cp MyApplication.jar path.to.MainClass
This puts all the Java 1.4.2 information in my PATH and CLASSPATH before the 1.5.x installation, and I ran a test Mac Java application that doesn't use the newer Java 5 syntax, and everything worked fine.
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