need ideas for how to name incremental jdk builds to be findable by /usr/libexec/java_home

[Stephen Bannasch]

At 11:02 AM -0800 2/24/12, Scott Kovatch wrote:
>Are you building the JDK yourself? If so you want to set
>
>export JDK_UPDATE_VERSION=04
>
>and then you'll see
>
>Matching Java Virtual Machines (2):
>    1.7.0_04, x86_64:	"OpenJDK 7"	/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_04.jdk/Contents/Home

Thanks Scott, that worked:

$ /usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.7 -V
Matching Java Virtual Machines (2):
    1.7.0, x86_64:	"OpenJDK 7"	~/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk/Contents/Home
    1.7.0_04, x86_64:	"OpenJDK 7"	~/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0_04-2012_02_24.jdk/Contents/Home

BUT ... the new jdk still doesn't show up running this app:

  /Applications/Utilities/Java\ Preferences.app

I'm on 10.6 ... and I realize the plan is to stop supporting the 'Java Preferences' app but I am surprised that the 1.7.0_04 JDK doesn't show up.