This morning Sun officially released Java 6 for download after over two years of development. The Java 6 development cycle has been the most open of any Java release with weekly builds available to the public and extensive collaboration between Sun and over 330 external developers. Sun has worked with over 160 companies to ensure backwards compatibility, stability and optimum performance of applications running on the JVM.
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Member since:2006-07-12
I hope you're right. It's a shame, though, that it will be left to the community to do this.
You'd think that at this moment more than ever that Sun would support the 64-bit version of a browser from the very community it's just opened its source code to!
Edited 2006-12-11 21:16
Member since:2005-08-22
That's why the GPL release of Java is a long-awaited thing. I suspect you will see more direct Java hooks in Firefox and other worthwhile browsers as a result, and no doubt there will be a release of a 64 bit plugin directly compiled on your operating system of choice if you are using *nix or Macintosh.
Of course, the tradeoff to this is there will be 3 different open source plugins, each of which has a different set of bugs/limitations.
Member since:2005-10-13
I'd take 3 different plugins each with limitations over 0 different plugins that don't exist any day...
I'm not so sure I agree, though. It should be simple enough to do a straight 64-bit port of the official Sun plugin, and everyone would know that any others that are created might not be as well supported.
Member since:2006-01-12
Member since:
2005-11-15
There still is no 64-bit firefox plugin on any platform. There is support for 64-bit IE.
That's why the GPL release of Java is a long-awaited thing. I suspect you will see more direct Java hooks in Firefox and other worthwhile browsers as a result, and no doubt there will be a release of a 64 bit plugin directly compiled on your operating system of choice if you are using *nix or Macintosh.
In a few months, complaints like yours will likely be no more.