How to uninstall (remove) JAVA from OS X Lion
Open terminal (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal)
To remove JVM enter folowing:
sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/
Then, clean up the installer records by removing them from /private/var/db/receipts/:
com.apple.pkg.JavaForMacOSX107.bom
com.apple.pkg.JavaForMacOSX107.plist
Now clear any traces of the Java installation from Software Update.
Please copy following file to your Desktop /Library/Receipts/InstallHistory.plist by entering following string in terminal:
sudo cp
/Library/Receipts/InstallHistory.plist~/Desktop
Change permissions on it
chown yourusername:staff ~/Desktop/
InstallHistory.plist
Open it in TextEdit and find following: com.apple.pkg.JavaEssentials, remove all dict section which containing this line (it may be several of them)
Example of one of the records:
<dict>
<key>date</key>
2012-04-13T22:13:59Z
<key>displayName</key>
<string>Java for OS X 2012-003</string>
<key>displayVersion</key>
<string></string>
<key>packageIdentifiers</key>
<array>
<string>com.apple.pkg.JavaEssentials</string>
<string>com.apple.pkg.JavaForMacOSX107</string>
<string>com.apple.pkg.JavaSecurity</string>
</array>
<key>processName</key>
<string>Installer</string>
</dict>
When you are finished with cleaning, save this file, exit from texedit. Then change permissions to original by entering
sudo chown root:wheel ~/Desktop/InstallHistory.plist
Copy it to original location
mv~/Desktop/InstallHistory.plist/Library/Receipts/