Heads up: bundle name change integrated today

[Scott Kovatch]

On May 8, 2012, at 9:10 AM, Henri Gomez wrote:

>> The issue with overwriting will bite you if you are installing with the Oracle JDK installer. If you build it yourself, probably not. I know some people (including myself) just have a symlink to the built JDK bundle in /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines, and if you forget to update that link you'll wonder why nothing changes when you make a fix.
> 
> A symlink between /your/home/build/location/1.7.0.jdk and
> /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk ?
> 
> So it will be a new symlink between :
> 
> /your/home/build/location/jdk1.7.0.jdk and
> /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk ?

No, just 'ln -s /your/home/build/location/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk' in /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines, in my case. I also had one for /your/home/build/location/1.7.0.jdk.

-- Scott