Mac version never loads of JNI library fat binary because 10.4 version preceeds x86_64 version about sqlite4java HOT 4 CLOSED

But it does check base name - see collectBaseLibraryNames just two lines 
further. Please try running this: 
   java -jar sqlite4java.jar -d
to make it try to load all variants of the binary and output the results.

You're right, it does, but in this case it's after the check for -10.4, which 
causes it to match to -10.4 rather than the fat binary. r.add(base) should be 
moved up a few lines.

java -jar sqlite4java.jar -d
sqlite4java 282
121212:134119.239 FINE [sqlite] Internal: loading library
121212:134119.239 FINE [sqlite] Internal: 
java.library.path=/Users/XXXXX/Library/Java/Extensions:/Library/Java/Extensions:
/Network/Library/Java/Extensions:/System/Library/Java/Extensions:/usr/lib/java:.
121212:134119.240 FINE [sqlite] Internal: sqlite4java.library.path=null
121212:134119.240 FINE [sqlite] Internal: cwd=XXXXX
121212:134119.240 FINE [sqlite] Internal: default path=XXXXX
121212:134119.240 FINE [sqlite] Internal: forced path=null 
121212:134119.240 FINE [sqlite] Internal: os.name=mac os x; os=osx
121212:134119.240 FINE [sqlite] Internal: os.arch=x86_64
121212:134119.240 FINE [sqlite] Internal: trying to load sqlite4java-osx-x86_64
121212:134119.243 FINE [sqlite] Internal: cannot load sqlite4java-osx-x86_64: 
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no sqlite4java-osx-x86_64 in java.library.path
121212:134119.243 FINE [sqlite] Internal: trying to load sqlite4java-osx-amd64
121212:134119.244 FINE [sqlite] Internal: cannot load sqlite4java-osx-amd64: 
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no sqlite4java-osx-amd64 in java.library.path
121212:134119.244 FINE [sqlite] Internal: trying to load sqlite4java-osx-10.4
121212:134119.249 INFO [sqlite] Internal: loaded sqlite4java-osx-10.4 from 
system path
121212:134119.252 INFO [sqlite] Internal: loaded sqlite 3.7.10, wrapper 0.2
SQLite 3.7.10
Compile-time options: ENABLE_COLUMN_METADATA ENABLE_FTS3 
ENABLE_FTS3_PARENTHESIS ENABLE_LOCKING_STYLE=0 ENABLE_MEMORY_MANAGEMENT 
ENABLE_RTREE OMIT_DEPRECATED TEMP_STORE=1 THREADSAFE=1

The files are tried in the order of more specific to less specific. So the 
order is correct. 

The problem is that there's no more specific binary - so we might need to 
rename libsqlite4java-osx.jnilib to libsqlite4java-osx-amd64.jnilib.

The workaround in your case is to do that manually - rename the file, or remove 
10.4 binary.