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At long last, Java 1.5 is available for OS X. I am definitely disappointed the Mac users are second-class citizens in Java land, and I do wish that Apple would work with Sun to make sure that there OS X JVM updates come out at the same time as for other platform. For the time being, that's just the way the world works. We're finally caught up, so there is no point in crying about the situation.

If you don't yet have Java 1.5, you'll have to download and install it separately. Even when you do that, Java 1.5 won't replace Java 1.4 as the current JDK. It will be installed in /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0. If you want to use it, you'll need to update a few environment variables:

export JAVA_HOME=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5/Home
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

If you are working from the command line, that's all you have to do. I haven't tested it out extensively, but I did compile the JBoss EJB3 preview from CVS and run it.