Developer Preview 1 of Java 6 for Mac OS X 10.4 available

Classic Servoy
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I guess the topic says it all.
Developer Preview 1 of Java 6 for Mac OS X 10.4 available for download at the ADC member site.
This is good news. It means Apple is still serious (sorta) about their Java support.
Lets hope the Leopard version will be available soon too.

You need to be a ADC member (free membership is available) to be able to download it.

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ROCLASI:
Lets hope the Leopard version will be available soon too.

This release updates J2SE 5.0 to version 1.5.0_13

Unfortunatly this is the version that is already running on Leopard and unfortunatly it doesn’t shine… :(

Apple!! Give us Java 1.6 !!!

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It also updates 1.4.2_x to 1.4.2_16. You would think 1.6 would be in this release then as well (somewhere!).
But I haven’t tried it yet.

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1.6 was removed from Leopard before GM and ADC website mentions a developer preview version but I wasn’t able to find it.
I hope Apple will ship it soon anyway.

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http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2007/tn2196.html

J2SE 5.0 on Mac OS X 10.5 gives Java applications access to a wide range of native control styles. These new runtime client properties allow your Java application to look and feel more like Cocoa applications than ever, while still enjoying the portability benefits of a pure Java codebase.

Hmmm,
cool, we need it.

harry

:lol:

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Apple has posted a Java SE 6 Developer Preview 8 on their developer site. In the release notes they say that this Developer Preview “has a refreshed implementation of the Aqua Look-and-Feel, designed to work with a User Display Scale Factor greater than 1.0. Please see Tech note 2196: New Control Styles available within J2SE 5.0 on Mac OS X 10.5 for more information about new client properties available in this implementation of the Aqua Look and Feel. Any use of the legacy Aqua Look-and-Feel classes is deprecated”.

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Also note that this particular version is 64-bit only and Intel only.
Lets hope they will release a 32-bit and PPC version soon.

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As far as I understood from several posts there won’t be a version for PPC.

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I read somewhere that Java 6 has not been tested too much…

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And I heard somewhere that this version fixes the GUI issues.
Time to get a MacBook Pro I guess…

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someone told me this version slices bread. but only if the phase of the moon is full.

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Someone told me Microsoft bought up Apple just before Sun bought up Microsoft. :shock:
Seems Java 7 will be released on all platforms at the same time! :!:

Okay maybe not, but I can dream can’t I… :(
In any case it seems Apple is still supporting Java although they are notoriously hush-hush about it. Steve (Jobs) seems to be very OCD about it. :? The hush-hush thing I mean.