![]() ![]() * The other Java installed with Mavericks is old old old and is Java 1.6, already mentioned above. Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ugin/Contents/Home/bin/java So you can type this from the command line: INSTALL JAVA PLUGIN FOR SAFARI FULLYou *can* use that java from the command line, because that plugin contains a full Java VM. * The plugin used by browsers to run applets is 1.8 (Java 8) here: In Mavericks, there are two Java VMs that I know of: There are definitely some complications about running Java on OS X. Web applets still use the up to date, secure version 1.7 plugin. Sudo rm -fr /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/*Īnd then checked that the reported version of Java was 1.6 on each Mac. To fix things for the moment I simply removed the jdk folders. What was happening on the not-working Macs was that the jdk versions were being used, and the Juniper vpn client won't work with them. Simply put, you can have multiple versions of Java in different places. Then I remembered the difference between 'System' Java, Java plugins, and Java development kits. I keep everything up to date via the Java control panel (currently 1.7xx soon to be 1.8) so was surprised to see this: Then I remembered that I had done some Java development in the past and installed various jdks from Oracle so I ran: I made sure that the Safari and Java preferences were set the same on each machine but still no joy. But on the third Mac, everything worked fine. On two of the Macs, as soon as I fired up the Citrix app, the Java vpn window would show 'error'. Once that was all done, I could log in from all my Macs, fire up the applet and establish a secure connection. ![]() The first thing is that you have to do some configuring of both Java and Safari to get the applet to run at all. INSTALL JAVA PLUGIN FOR SAFARI INSTALLThe applet is a simple vpn client from Juniper that lets me access a Citrix Desktop from any Mac that I can install the Citrix receiver client on so I can work on 'Company stuff' from a large screen iMac when I'm sat at home or from my MacBook when I'm on the road (it works fine over 3/4G). Recently, I was trying to get a Java applet to run in the same way on 2 iMacs and my MacBook Air. I sometimes find the Java setup on my various Apple devices to be a mystery. ![]()
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