Missing jjs on Mac OS

[Ben Evans]

Ok - thanks Jim.

Ben

On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Jim Laskey (Oracle)
<james.laskey at oracle.com> wrote:
> Ben,
>
> You have to take it up with Apple.  java, javac et al links were 'built' into the OS when Apple controlled Java on Mac OS X.  What you have now are ghosts from the past.  jjs has been added since Apple handed java maintenance over to Oracle.  What you have now are ghosts from the past.  Currently, each user has to manually (cd /usr/bin/ ;  ln -s $JAVA_HOME/bin/jjs jjs) .
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Jim
>
>
>
> On May 8, 2014, at 9:01 AM, Ben Evans <benjamin.john.evans at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It's great having JDK 8 as the "system JDK" on Mac now, but it looks
>> like the current packaging doesn't put jjs into this directory:
>>
>> /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Commands/
>>
>> which is the location that files from /usr/bin should target.
>>
>> Is there somewhere more official I should report this? Details of my
>> use case below:
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> Mac OS 10.7.5
>>
>> $ java -version
>> java version "1.8.0_05"
>> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_05-b13)
>> Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.5-b02, mixed mode)
>>
>> $ which java
>> /usr/bin/java
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