How to get JDK 1.5 on Mac OSX

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Published on 2010-05-17T03:58:13Z Indexed on 2010/05/17 4:10 UTC
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I've got to write some code for a legacy application that is still running JDK 1.5. Unfortunately, it looks like OSX doesn't actually have a 1.5 JDK installed, it just links to 1.6:

/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions $ ls -l
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    5 Apr 26 11:53 1.3 -> 1.3.1
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  102 Feb 11 15:33 1.3.1
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   10 Apr 26 11:53 1.4 -> CurrentJDK
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   10 Apr 26 11:53 1.4.2 -> CurrentJDK
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   10 Apr 26 11:53 1.5 -> CurrentJDK
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   10 Apr 26 11:53 1.5.0 -> CurrentJDK
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    5 Apr 26 11:53 1.6 -> 1.6.0
drwxr-xr-x  7 root  wheel  238 Apr 26 11:53 1.6.0
drwxr-xr-x  8 root  wheel  272 Apr 26 11:53 A
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    1 Apr 26 11:53 Current -> A
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    3 Apr 26 11:53 CurrentJDK -> 1.6

It sounds like from http://developer.apple.com/java/faq/ that Java is part of the OS update...I'm on OSX-10.6.3. Anybody know of a way to get an actual 1.5 JDK installed on this OS version? Or do I need to try and find an old version of OSX before I can do this work?

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