

We can download it either from Oracle or OpenJDK: We need to go out in the wild to get JDK 7 installed on Mac OS X since mother-Apple doesn’t support it. Also to browse the JDK under an IDE point your editor to the JDK sources found in /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0_37-b06-434.jdk/Contents/Home/src.jar Following that you can mark JAVA_HOME or point your IDE towards /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0_37-b06-434.jdk/Contents/Home/. Successful installation will place Java 6 under /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0_37-b06-434.jdk/.


Java 6 is the last supported version provided by Apple. Here’s a quick guide to have Java versions 6,7,8 installed on Mac OS X above and beyond.
