You’d think that the people who originally came up with java would have a decent automatic updating mechanism for their own operating system, like happens for Windows. You’d think wrong. Instead, they provide some instructions with vague lines that imply hours of additional work (“make sure all applicable updates have been applied before starting…“), and give zero guidance that I’ve found so far, on make the transition from a JRE to a JDK. If I’m reading my pkginfo results correctly, there are literally dozens of java pkg’s that make up the JRE, and even more for the JDK. Oy vey.
