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.
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.