They are following Microsoft's path now and try to tie you to their flashy Xcode platform. That's a great tool if you're developing exclusively for a Mac - as Visual Studio is for Windows... But I'll dump both happily anytime for a fully loaded Eclipse - supported and steadily improved by a tremendous community! Java really evolved over the years into being my my most favorite and even beloved language. It is very stable, and scales exceptionally well, mostly due to its excellent support for multi threaded develeopment. How can threading get any easier than by using, for example, the excellent ThreadPools? As any language, it has its faults, but at the bottom line it has become so mature and extensive, that I don't want to miss it anymore. Shame on Apple for this scam!
Some may have forseen this. Tell me a longer developer preview than Java 6 for Mac OS X. But I would have at least expected, that they finally get their act together for Leopard's launch.
The following screenshot shows the final retail version of Leopard bluntly missing Java 6.
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I'm still holding out hope SE6 will be on Leopard (the intel version).
This is an installation from a retail DVD.
Do you mean it's missing because I'm running on PPC?
Hmm....
Why do you think that an upgrade to the Java environment would/should be tied to the OS upgrade? If it were, then this would mean that only 10.5 would get this upgrade. As it is, there is still hope that Apple will provide this upgrade at some point to 10.4 and 10.5. They have done this in the past.
In the past it was tied to OS upgrades. There have never been more than two JVM's per OS. For Tiger this is would be 1.4 and 1.5.
I'm hoping that they are actually going to use SE6 64bit. My guess is that since PPC Macs are both 32 and 64 bit they are only going to support SE5 32 bit for PPC. They did have a SE6 beta in the developer downloads for awhile but it is now gone. Why tie a Java upgrade to the OS? To make you buy it ;)
Nope, just checked. The Intel version also lacks Java 6!
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