Java SE 7 Update 6

Bjarne D Mathiesen macintosh at mathiesen.info
Tue Aug 21 12:36:47 PDT 2012


Blair Zajac wrote:
> On 08/21/2012 11:49 AM, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote:
>> When reading
>> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Java-SE-7-Update-6-hands-OS-X-support-to-Oracle-1667714.html
>>
>> it seems as if the one has to manually upgrade to this version while
>> future upgrades are then done automagically by Oracle.
>>
>> Now, there are 2 (two) versions : JRE & JDK.
>> Which version should one install in order to best achive support for
>> MacPorts ?
> 
> The JDK because we compile code, it's the safer bet.  I haven't
> downloaded the JRE myself, but I presume it doesn't come with javac.
> 
> Blair

Both seem to come with : java, javac, jar

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