Comments on: Missing in Action: Java 6 for Mac

By: Habiburahman Khaled

Habiburahman Khaled — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 05:43:09 +0000

Sorry Correct spelling of Mac at first line

thanks

By: Mahesh

Mahesh — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:57:55 +0000

Apple might be coming with its own programming tool like java that could be deployable over any os not like .net which runs only on windows.

That could be the reason what u think?

By: Bonzo_CS

Bonzo_CS — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:44:24 +0000

I think this is a good blog and worth a mention.

On the one hand, there is speculation that its release is imminent, based on Apple’s history of releasing Java 5 within weeks of Mac OS X Tiger.

Apple have not said they are not supporting it have they? I would therefore assume it’s more likely to be a delay than a rejection. They had to get Leopard out before xmas and if they had to do this without java 6, it would have made financial sense which would strengthen the position of the company. It would be in their interests to officially respond on this issue not to keep people in the dark and create a panic, but they obviously missed that. As for releasing features after the core product launch, are we not already used to this with Microsoft and every almost every other OS out there.

By: rozner

rozner — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:03:22 +0000

this is interesting, I just bought a Mac, I always assumed the latest Java was available on Macs, I’m new the whole Mac world. So yes, I care about this as I am Java developer. But it’s true the industry is far behind. I just finished a contract job, the company I was working for uses Java 1.4.2 and Struts 1.1, both really old.

By: altjeringa

altjeringa — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:28:39 +0000

Major disappointment. I recall Apple calling on Java deveopers years a go saying the Java was a first class citizen on OS X since that day it’s lagged behind every other platform. This is nothing new. That said, how many people are developing on the Java 1.6 platform? The adoption of new versions of Java in the industry always lags behind about a year, as does Apples release of a new JDK/JRE. Yes I’m pissed, but I’ve been around long enough to know better.

By: VRuss

VRuss — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:50:51 +0000

Kevin,

Thanks for the update, but it isn’t a surprise. Apples attitude towards consumers and customers is not good. It won’t add to it’s customer base by being arrogant.

Apple is in a prime position to regain OS market share at the expense of Microsoft by releasing Leopard to the masses sans Apple hardware, yet SJ won’t do it. If leoplard was released for around $100US, I’d buy it tomorrow, as would hundreds of thousands of those unhappy with Vista.

It is time for Linux to really make the desktop home. Which distro???

By: marbly

marbly — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:01:20 +0000

Apple has been waiting for BSD to implement it first :P

possible ey?

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 19:19:46 +0000

Well, you wrote a blog about how glad you were about switching to a Mac and thought how important it was to get rid of baggage.

Yeah sounds pretty strange to me either. He even said that he was using up to 60% of his mac enviroment or something. Was Java that 40% missing? Doesn’t seem to be that irrelevant. Time to switch to a real developer-friendly os, coz apple never was anyway.

By: brad

brad — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:55:59 +0000

Java is great. Have been developing with it for nine years. Haven’t used a Mac since 1985, or so. Am I missing anything?

By: fishinwa

fishinwa — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:18:06 +0000

Well, you wrote a blog about how glad you were about switching to a Mac and thought how important it was to get rid of baggage. Well, there’s some baggage to get rid of, eh? Ever curious about what baggage you’re missing?