I have made the leap to Java 1.5 for my development at home on my Apple G4. It is quite simple, just follow the instructions here and it worked like a charm, except the Command line advice. I would instead set your JAVA_HOME to be /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5/Home/, since most current applications (such as Tomcat and probably your path) already reference $JAVA_HOME/bin. This will save you from having to update all of those scripts and is the whole point of the Home directory.

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