By default, Java is disabled (and probably not even installed) in 10.7.

If Java is not already installed, you may be asked to do so first.

It appears to have become an optional install, like Rosetta was with Snow Leopard.

It also looked like this was still the Apple Java VM, and not an Oracle-produced version, although I cant say so for certain.

The installed version is Apples Java 1.6 VM.

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Oracle will provide Java for Mac starting with Java 1.7 (which was just recently released for Windows and Linux).

Java 1.7 isnt yet available for the Mac but supposedly will be soon.

Also supposedly, future versions of Java will be release for all three platforms at the same time by Oracle.

Click a few buttons and Lion downloads and installs the Java VM for you.

Java Mountain Lion Upgrade A System

If you upgrade a system to Lion, it will actively remove the existing Java installation.

However, Lion will automatically download Java if you attempt to run any Java applications.

The Oracle version isnt even ready for beta yet but will probably have a developer-only release by the end of the year.

You can probably expect the Oracle Java version to be ready for end-users by 2nd quarter of next year.

Once it is finally released, the Oracle version is slated to be a first class release, meaning new versions of Java will come out simultaneously for Windows, Linux and OSX.

Thats the whole point of Apple ceding control, they werent devoting the developer resources necessary to keep up to date on Java releases.

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