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Better late than never, Apple releases the second Java 6 JDK for Leopard

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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.

This entry was posted on Thursday, December 20th, 2007 at 7:00 pm and is filed under Core Ghetto, apple, bsd, ghetto, java. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Better late than never, Apple releases the second Java 6 JDK for Leopard”

  1. Joe Attardi Says:
    December 21st, 2007 at 3:25 pm

    Results? This is a developer preview, and requires (1) the latest version of Mac OS X, and (2) the latest 64-bit Mac hardware. I’m not quite ready to STFU yet.

    They’re now more than a YEAR behind when it should have come out.

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