I agree with the assessment below, however if you wish to rid your machine of Java SE 6, the correct procedure is:
Remove the "system" JVM installed and maintained by Software Update % sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk Remove any Java Developer Previews % sudo rm -rf /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0*.jdk Do NOT remove any content in the JavaVM.framework. Those items are required by Java 7, 8, 9+ as well as Java SE 6. No modern version of OS X has a Java JDK inside there anyway. Regards, Mike Swingler Apple Inc. On Feb 4, 2014, at 9:21 AM, Joshua Smith <jesm...@kaon.com> wrote: > I don’t know the answer to your question, but I can suggest that you might be > causing yourself unneeded problems. > > Security updates are important because of web sites that use Java > maliciously. But you can’t use Java 6 on the web anyway. You can only run > Java 7 for applets. > > Java 6 is on your machine for legacy software that relies on it in standalone > applications. The security issues aren’t going to impact these apps. The > security issues are invariably sandbox violation tricks, and the standalone > apps aren’t running Java sandboxed anyway. > > -Joshua > > On Feb 4, 2014, at 12:07 PM, Claudio Nieder <priv...@claudio.ch> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> it seems like Apple does not support Java 1.6 on Mavericks anymore, it is >> still at 1.6.0_65, the latest security updates of 1.6.0_71 are not available >> for OSX 10.9. >> >> Thus I would like to get rid of Java 6, but last time I tried to remove >> anything Java like except for what I had in >> /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7* resulted in problems even with >> Java 7, I probably removed more than I should have to and deleted some >> library or framework needed by Java 7, and thus had to reinstall Java 6. >> >> So what is the recommended way to uninstall Java 6 from Mavericks? Is there >> any utility one can execute? >> >> claudio >> -- >> Claudio Nieder, Talweg 6, CH-8610 Uster, Tel +4179 357 6743, www.claudio.ch >> >> >> >> >
