Saturday 15 December 2007

Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 6

Apple have updated Java for Mac OS X 10.4.

Don't get too excited, I got confused by the name as well... it's not Java 6 for Mac OS X, it's Java Release 6 - an update for J2SE 5.0 and Java 1.4

Still no Java 6 for OS X :-(

[UPDATED]

Looks like I spoke too soon.
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2 comments:

  1. Chris16 December 2007 at 01:13

    Java versioning is a bit stupid isn't it?

    In Leopard, when I run

    java -version

    I get:

    Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_13-b05-237)
    Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_13-119, mixed mode, sharing)

    What release is this?

    (And why do I care? ;)

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  2. Steve16 December 2007 at 04:24

    I think Sun had a change of heart half way through!

    It must be a hot topic, considering there is a Wikipedia article devoted to it!

    I think in summary, the J2 bit is now dropped in favour for just Java. Having Java 2, version 1.5 (or is that version 5.0?) was confusing.

    But 1.5 is the developer version and 5.0 is the platform or product version. They refer to the same product.

    Yep, I'm still confused!

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