Six Months Later Than Hoped, Java SE 6 Is Out For Mac OS X
Back at the end of October last year, Apple’s new version of Mac OS X aka Leopard, had just shipped, with an important piece missing. The mising piece that people had been hoping for and expecting was Java SE 6. Mac Java developers around the world freaked out, and a campaign (code word 13949712720901ForOSX ) was started to persuade Apple to release it asap. Now, almost six months later to the day, Apple has shipped a production version of Java SE 6. In all, that makes Apple’s Java schedule around 1.5 years behind Windows, Linux and Solaris; and there’s one wrinkle: it’s only available for 64-bit Intel Macs. Full details of the release in Apple’s PDF Release Notes document.
Still - better later than never; and at least Apple managed to get it out the door before the world’s biggest Java conference, JavaOne starts next week. That should make the many Mac Java developers attending happy… or at least they’ll probably be happy until they hear all about the revolutionary work that’s going into the soon-to-be-released and catchily named “Java SE 6 Update 10″, including the fantastic new Java plug-in for Internet Explorer and Firefox 3!
I wonder how long before there’s a campaign to bring Java 6 Update 10 to Mac OS X…
Asam Bashir wrote:
Don’t really understand why it’s 64-bit only, though most modern dual-core Macs are 64-bit. Can understand that there maybe enterprise applications and databases that need to access greater then 4GB data in any one process, but why make it 64-bit only?
Posted 30 Apr 2008 at 9:45 pm ¶
simon wrote:
My guess is that it’s a resourcing issue i.e. it’s that they didn’t have time.
Posted 30 Apr 2008 at 10:05 pm ¶