Where are Java preferences stored on Mac OS X?

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avernet picture avernet · Mar 24, 2009 · Viewed 53.1k times · Source

On Windows, the Java preferences, which you access in your application from java.util.prefs.Preferences are stored in the registry. Where are those stored on Mac OS X?

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Todd Gamblin picture Todd Gamblin · Mar 24, 2009

From Apple Developer Connection:

The preferences files generated by the Preferences API are named com.apple.java.util.prefs. The user’s preferences file is stored in their home directory (~/Library/Preferences/). The system preferences are stored in /Library/Preferences/ and are only persisted to disk if the user is an administrator.

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