Leopard gets Java upgrade
Wednesday Apr 30, 2008
Mac has always stayed behind in terms of the latest JDKs that are released by Sun. This is mainly because the JDKs for Mac are released by Apple and not by Sun. Today morning when I went for Software Upgrade I found this:
Finally, Apple has decided to release Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_05 for Mac. Unfortunately, this package has been released only for 64-bit Intel based Macs running 10.5.2 (Leopard). So not everyone will be able to install this upgrade. Thank god I have a computer suitable for this upgrade.
The only thing that bothers me is that "This update does not replace the existing installation of J2SE 5.0 or change the default version of Java". I dont know why they would do something like this, push the upgrade but not make it default. Maybe this upgrade is not all that stable or something.
Complementary to this upgrade is Netbeans 6.1, which has come out recently. Now the installation is very big, takes about 448 MB for the complete package. But this edition starts up very fast on Leopard as compared to Netbeans 6.0
At the same time, relating to Netbeans... The Netbeans Fun Tech quiz is on now for India. Dont miss out on those cool prizes every week.
PS: There is a Mac Java community page: http://community.java.net/mac/. Accidentally landed on this page while writing this blog entry.
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