Apple has switched to a yearly release cycle for Mac OS X, which means it is difficult to keep this documentation up to date. The legacy client will not receive future feature enhancements. It is a universal application that runs on both PowerPC and Intel hardware. Sudo ln -sf /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM. The legacy client, which supports Mac OS X versions from 10.4 to 10.6.
Open Terminal, located in the Utilities folder.Note: You must be logged in as an administrator. If prompted for your administrator password after a command, enter it and then press the Return or Enter key.
If, after installing Java for OS X 2014-001 and the latest version of Java 7 from Oracle, you want to disable Java 7 and re-enable the Apple-provided Java SE 6 web plug-in and Web Start functionality, follow these steps.