Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 11th Dec 2006 19:49 UTC, submitted by amerigo5
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.
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For about seven years it have been impossible to use all keys on European keyboards with java. What keys that fails varies from country to country. On my Swedish keyboard it have been the tilde character that could not be typed.
There have been some exeptions, JDK1.5beta2 worked, and so did pre release builds of JDK1.6.
This time though, I'm not sure I can blame Sun, as the new Java seam to work on Fedora Core 4, but not on FC6.
At first I guessed it is a problem with the X server (xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-47.2.fc6), but it turned out that tilde worked just fine if I opened an ssh session to my FC4 box and displayed it on my FC6 Xorg server. Anybody that have any ideas?
Still, it is almost like there was a conspiracy against java on the Linux desktop. This is really a pity as the new java 6 seam to be really snappy, and comes with many desktop related features that would have been really nice for people that wanted to create cross platform desktop applicatin.