I have Java sdk 1.7 installed correctly. It turns out I need the version of 1.6 also (an application needs it).
How do I install the version of 1.6 and how do I make sure that we'll both work correctly eventually?
I have Java sdk 1.7 installed correctly. It turns out I need the version of 1.6 also (an application needs it).
How do I install the version of 1.6 and how do I make sure that we'll both work correctly eventually?
Java is fully backwards compatible, you can see it by the version numbers. JAVA 6 and 7 are really 1.6 and 1.7 so you only needs the latest version installed.
You may need more packages than waht are provided in the SDK, check this answer for more help.
Following old tutorials runs the risk of not being able to follow them since they don't work anymore. This tutorial you are following is four years old(2009), and the fix for it is a year old which may have worked when 1.7 Was just released but now it's just a memory berried in the history of software development.
Find a new tutorial on the topic, since this one is dead.
OR you can go the extra mile an install a VM with Ubuntu 10.04 and Java sdk 1.6 if you think it's worth that much work...