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Uninstalled Java 6, installed Java 7, keep getting requests to install Java SE 6 plugin. Why?

Because of the security issues with Java, I uninstalled Java 6 (using various terminal commands) and installed Java 7 from Oracle's website. Looking at /Library/Internet Plug-Ins, I can see that JavaAppletPlugin.plugin is there, and Get Info tells me that it is part of Java 7 Update 09.

However, when I use Safari to try out a Java test page, or use one of the Java-based programs that I need to run for work, I get a message that says, "To open “PluginProcess,” you need a Java SE 6 runtime. Would you like to install one now?" (PluginProcess is replaced by the program name if I am running a Java program.) If I click "Install", the Apple version of Java 6 gets installed.

This doesn't make sense to me. Why would Java 7 need the Apple Java 6 environment? And why doesn't Safari or other Java based programs recognize that the Java 7 JavaAppletPlugin.plugin is on my computer already?

Although I'm not really an IT person, I am pretty handy with the Terminal and command line operations, so if fixing this means using the command line, I'm good with that.

Thanks!

Posted on Oct 22, 2012 11:14 AM

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Apr 11, 2014 12:55 PM in response to Rey Bango

So, despite the fact that Apple is slowly but surely (supposedly) turning all responsibility for Java on Mac over to Oracle, you literally can't use Java under Mavericks without installing Apple's version of SE 6?

That doesn't make any sense.

akauppi

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Apr 12, 2014 5:46 AM in response to JimJohnMarks

No, it doesn't. I stopped thinking about it long ago. It's one of those weird things in this world that simply "should be fixed". It's bizarre if it carries on even in Java 8 time (I do wish not).

It's two commercial corporation doing stuff. We probably don't have similar examples in the open source world, do we? 😝

Apr 12, 2014 6:03 AM in response to akauppi

So, I have Eclipse working w/o installing Apple SE 6. Simply install the newest version of Eclipse 64 bit and JDK 7 and they "just work" without any other problems -- apparently the older version of Eclipse that got copied over with my profile from my previous machine couldn't do this, but the newest one can.

The only problem I have left is that Max for Live requires Java and it doesn't seem to be clever enough to avoid the problem. I'll take that up on the Ableton forums and see if anyone has a solution there.

I REALLY don't want two JRE's on this machine if I can help it.

Uninstalled Java 6, installed Java 7, keep getting requests to install Java SE 6 plugin. Why?