Apple heeft te kennen gegeven dat Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) de laatste release van OS X zal zijn waarin Java 6 wordt ondersteund. Ontwikkelaars met applicaties die afhankelijk zijn van Java 6, wordt dan ook aangeraden hun applicaties te migreren naar een recentere Java-versie van Oracle. Java for OS X 2015-001 beta installs the legacy Java 6 runtime for OS X 10.11 El Capitan. This package is exclusively intended for support of legacy software, and installs the same deprecated version of Java 6 included in the 2013-005 release.

There are a few apps around – one is Oxygen, the superb XML editor – which still require the old Java 6 runtime, and will not run under more recent versions of Java.

'Java for OS X 2015-001 installs the legacy Java 6 runtime for OS X 10.11 El Capitan, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, and OS X 10.7 Lion. This package is exclusively intended for support of legacy software and installs the same deprecated version of Java 6 included in the 2014-001 and 2013-005 releases.

Legacy Java Se 6 Runtime Mac Os X El Capitan

You may recall from the days of OS X 10.7 Lion that Apple used to provide the Java 6 runtime. It still does: if an app complains that it needs this, you should obtain it from Apple here, as Oracle’s Java only provides more recent versions. Apple has updated this installer so that it works with, and on, OS X 10.11 El Capitan. And it does work.

Java Se 6 For Mac

What a tangled web we weave…