OSNews is Exploring the Future of Computing

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th Apr 2008 13:04 UTC, submitted by someone

Back in 2007 when Apple released Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, a much-heard criticism was the lack of support for Java 6. Leopard shipped with an older version of Java, 1.5, even though 1.6 had been released by Sun almost a year prior. Sun had already released Java 1.6 for Linux and Windows, but did not do so for Mac OS X, since Apple insists on developing their own version of Java, according to Sun. Now, 6 months later, Mac Java programmers can rejoice.

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RE[2]: Comment by Kroc

by Thom_Holwerda on Wed 30th Apr 2008 18:48 UTC in reply to "RE: Comment by Kroc"

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Look at it this way. What was the last Java client side application that you used? If you're not a Java developer, you're definitely going to try your best to stay away from anything Java related.

We just started using this here at OSN.

http://www.woopra.com/

Will blow all your prejudice surrounding Java away. What an AWESOME application.

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