Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th Apr 2008 13:04 UTC, submitted by someone
Mac OS X 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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Alternative to Apple's Java
by David on Wed 30th Apr 2008 19:06 UTC
David
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1997-10-01

I haven't used it and can't vouch for it, but there's an OSX port of BSD's java called SoyLatte that I believe will work on older Macs and Tiger.

http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/static/soylatte/