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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Member since:2006-01-23
I think the worse evil is the fact that we don't get this for Tiger... 
Java 6 GM has been available for Tiger since late 2007, hasn't it?
They even mention it in this support note: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307177
I'm not even sure that Apple have updated Java 5 for Leopard with the latest fixes but it's been a long time since I loaded Java 6 onto my Ubuntu and Windows machines.
For a company that said that Mac OS X was the best platform ever for Java, it's time for them to eat their words.
Member since:2008-04-30
Member since:2005-11-21
"I think the worse evil is the fact that we don't get this for Tiger...
Java 6 GM has been available for Tiger since late 2007, hasn't it?
They even mention it in this support note: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307177
I'm not even sure that Apple have updated Java 5 for Leopard with the latest fixes but it's been a long time since I loaded Java 6 onto my Ubuntu and Windows machines.
For a company that said that Mac OS X was the best platform ever for Java, it's time for them to eat their words. "
It's for this release:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/javaformacosx104release6.htm...
About Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 6
Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 6 delivers improved reliability and compatibility for Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 and Java 1.4 on Mac OS X 10.4.10 and later. This release updates J2SE 5.0 to version 1.5.0_13 and Java 1.4 to version 1.4.2_16.
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2008-04-30
I think the worse evil is the fact that we don't get this for Tiger...