Who says being an PITA doesn’t get results? Well after getting an earful from the java community, Apple has finally released a new version of Java 1.6 for the mac. Now all naysayers that said java is dead on the mac can STFU. Oh wait, was I one of those people? 
Anyway, you must be an ADC member to get it from here. This is great news but I really hope this does not stop the development of SoyLatte , the BSD port of Java 6 to Tiger and Leopard (now in it’s 1.0 release). From the SoyLatte webpage they state their admiral goals as :
- Support for Java 6 Development on Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5
- OpenJDK support for Java 7 on Mac OS X
- On-time release of Java 7 for Mac OS X
This whole java/apple debacle really shows why we need the OpenJDK to succeed.
I have been playing with Netebeans 6 since the betas and I have to say I’m impressed. The work that has been done on the editor is amazing and you can tell that they are taking cues from IDEA in that regard. For the kind of development I’ve been doing lately, Struts2/Spring/JPA webapps, NB rc1-6.0 has been solid. It’s that time again where I have to evaluate the option of getting the next IDEA upgrade license for the development team or stick with our current (6.x) version. My 30 day trial of IDEA 7.0.1 recently expired, so this is a great time to play with using NB 6 only for my maven based projects. If you recall he last time I tried to have them switch to Netbeans (5.5) there was almost a mutiny. This time I’ll let the team continue using IDEA while I keep using Netbeans 6 for as long as possible. If I cave in I will definitely let you know.
Peace,
GJ
