I’ve been humming along using OS X 10.6 for the better part of a year now. For the most part, the tool suite I identified in my earlier post has served me well. Having just released a major project for a client, I decided now would be a good time to upgrade to OS X Lion. Considering that I am months behind the curve, I figured it would be simple and that any issues would already have been addressed by the blogosphere. Everything went well except for getting a JDK with with source code and JavaDocs. This post describes how to get a JDK installation with source and JavaDoc after the upgrade or a clean install. Everything went well except for a couple issues. This post describes the issues I encountered with my environment.
JDK Repair
The upgrade process kindly removed all of my previously installed JDKs under /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines. This deletion had the added benefit of messing up my installed JVMs in Eclipse. Since the built-in JVM does not contain source code, I had to reinstall the developer package for the JDK. After a little venting about the intelligence of the engineer who made that decision, I was off to connect.apple.com to look for the OS X 10.7 JDK installer. Luckily the fix is the same as the process I described in the Installing the JDK and the Looking at the JDK files sections my earlier post, and I was up and running without too much additional frustration.
One thing of note is that the JDK installers did not appear in the download list when I first logged in, even after using the site’s search feature. If you find yourself in a similar position, the direct download link for the “Java for Mac OS X 10.7 Developer Package” installer as of the publishing of this post is https://developer.apple.com/downloads/download.action?path=Java/java_for_mac_os_x_10.7_developer_package/javadeveloper_for_mac_os_x_10.7__11a511.dmg
Insomia X
The upgrade breaks InsomniaX. For me it would still start, but it would not prevent the laptop from going to sleep. InsomniaX 2.0 adds Lion support; however, I did not have much luck with it.
Git
It looks like the upgrade may have also removed a symbolic link to my Git installation. The installation was not removed, but I had to create or recreate a link in /usr/local/bin.
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