No JavaSE 6 in Leopard
MacOS.X Leopard has arrived, but alas no JavaSE 6. Worse: I can't even download the pre-release that was available earlier from developer.apple.com any longer. Which means that as I don't want to automatically transfer my four year old installation on my old PowerBook G4, I won't be able to run JavaSE 6 on my new MacBook Pro 15" when it arrives, hopefully next week. Apple: this was your chance to set things straight with the Java community. We've heard rumors of a JavaSE 6 with resolutionless support and other goodies, but no.
Instead, you've decided to pull it all together. Not even a pre-release. Not even a road map. Not even a date when we can expect some sort of version of JavaSE 6. I'm this close to canceling my order. I wonder if I can still do that on Monday.
I will run it anyway; on Solaris and Ubuntu on VMWare Fusion. But it's a hassle to have to start VMWare whenever I want to do use the Java Scripting Framework, which is one of the things I do a lot right now. And it also means that whenever I'm presenting on conferences and other events, it will be Solaris or Ubuntu that will be on the huge screen above my head, not MacOS.X.
Update: It turns out that there is a version of JavaSE 6 for Leopard, but Apple's license rules on what you're allowed to disclose when a member of Apple Developer Connection doesn't allow me to publish anything about it. According to the terms is any unauthorized disclosure of information on pre-realse software prohibited. Sometimes I think Apple is it's own worst enemy.
