Comments on: Installing Java 1.5 on Mac OS X Panther

By: mao

mao — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:10:46 +0000

man, you turned a mac-idiot like me to a super java installer! bless u
mind you i followed all the above for a G4 PowerBook pro 10.4 tiger
thanks a lot!

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:46:04 +0000

The problem I have is when I get to step 4 (When prompted to overwrite existing files choose ‘Leave Alone’) I click leave alone but it doesn’t do anything it just flashes back to the same window

By: Tobias

Tobias — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:44:30 +0000

Wow, that was fast. Thanks a lot for your effort!

By: James Netherton

James Netherton — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:12:50 +0000

Hi Tobias – I did some reading and it seems Swing ends up being broken by the upgrade to Java 1.5.

Google for “undefined reference to _kCTForegroundColorFromContextAttributeName expected to be defined in ApplicationServices” and you’ll see a lot of dicsussion around Panther, Java 1.5 & Swing.

I don’t think there’s any easy way to get Swing working

By: Tobias

Tobias — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:45:18 +0000

Hey, a cool and helpful article, but when I tried it out with a simple Swing-App, I got the following error:

dyld: java Undefined symbols:
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Libraries/libawt.jnilib undefined reference to _kCTForegroundColorFromContextAttributeName expected to be defined in ApplicationServices
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Libraries/libawt.jnilib undefined reference to _NSAccessibilityTopLevelUIElementAttribute expected to be defined in Cocoa
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Libraries/libawt.jnilib undefined reference to _NSAccessibilityInsertionPointLineNumberAttribute expected to be defined in Cocoa
Trace/BPT trap

I’m not an experienced Mac-OS- or Unix-user, so maybe I’m missing something obvious. Can you help me?

thanks in advance
Tobias

By: James Netherton

James Netherton — Fri, 22 May 2009 06:40:22 +0000

Glad you found it useful

By: Brian Mauter

Brian Mauter — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:50:02 +0000

Dude, you rock! I host my website on a Panther Mac G4 Mini running Tomcat. My only gripe has been the lack of Java 5. Now I can run Quercus inside Tomcat so I can do JSP and PHP at the same time.