[moneydance] Apple Mac Java Update 4 and Find and Replace Plugin

[Steve Lessard]

Good new, everyone.  I have a fix!!!

Kevin, There is nothing wrong with your Find and Replace plugin on Mac  
OS X.  It does work fine, even after installing the recent Java update.

First, let me describe the problem...  When starting Moneydance.app  
from the Finder (usually by double-clicking its icon) OS X is starting  
Moneydance with the Java 1.5 VM.  I am not 100% sure why OS X is not  
respecting the Java Preferences, but I believe it has something to do  
with the JavaApplicationStub file that is part of Moneydance.app.

And now for the fix... WARNING: DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK

Replacing the JavaApplicationStub file with one from the 1.6 JVM will  
get Moneydance (and the Find and Replace plugin) running under the 1.6  
JVM.

Using Terminal.app do the following three commands:
cd /Applications/Moneydance.app/Contents/MacOS
mv JavaApplicationStub JavaApplicationStub.bak
cp /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/ 
Resources/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub .


Those three commands do this:
change to the directory where the Moneydance binaries live
make a backup of the existing JavaApplicationStub file by renaming it  
to JavaApplicationStub.bak
copy the JavaApplicationStub file from the current JVM install

And now you will be able to double-click the Moneydance icon and  
happily run Moneydance with the Find and Replace plugin.  :-)

Good luck!
-SteveL

p.s. A nice bonus is that Little Snitch once again sees Moneydance  
running as Moneydance instead of JavaApplicationStub.





On Jun 17, 2009, at 9:00 AM, moneydance-info-request at moneydance.com  
wrote:

> Message: 14
> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:53:19 -0500
> From: "kmenningen tds.net" <kmenningen at tds.net>
> Subject: [moneydance] Apple Mac Java Update 4 and Find and Replace
> 	Plugin
> To: General discussion related to Moneydance
> 	<moneydance-info at moneydance.com>
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> So by now you've heard that there are issues with the Find and Replace
> Plugin and the new Mac Java Update 4.
>
> Unfortunately, I'm a Windows user and I don't have any solutions at  
> the
> moment. Rewriting Find and Replace for Java 1.5 is not an option I'm  
> willing
> to take, and I don't have a Mac (yet) to play with and tinker. So at  
> this
> time all I can suggest is to uninstall Find and Replace (per Gordon's
> instructions below).
>
> Users on other operating systems should be okay. I am currently  
> using (and
> developing with) Java 1.6.0_14 with no problems.
>
> --Kevin