
41Introduction to Java in MATLAB
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signicantly when upgrading to a major OS version for which our specic MATLAB release
was not qualied.
MATLAB on Mac OS, in particular, is plagued by many JVM-related issues, especially with
the Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard),
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but also on older versions such as Mac OS X 10.5
(Leopard).
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A CSSM user suggested that this is due to Mac OS’s default installation of JVM
1.6, which is incompatible with MATLAB that requires an older JVM (remember that MATLAB
uses Mac’s JVM by default, not a pre-bundled JVM). He suggested to actually downgrade the
JVM by installing version 1.5.
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