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Leopard is out, and most development based news sites are abuzz with the scandal that OS X still doesn’t support Java 1.6

Don’t have much to add to the flames, except to say I called it.

An interesting bit of digging on damnhandy into the WWDC session list points out that Java on Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) is going to sport a 64 bit Java VM, along with Swing support for the new Leopard UI features. The WWDC notes are pretty brief and just buried in the general session listing page, so details are still sketchy.

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The interesting thing damnhandy points out, is that seeing as Leopard Java (Java 6?) is going to be 64 bit, it probably won’t run on Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4). That’s kind of a shame, but it’s better than nothing. I posted a few weeks ago that as a developer, I just want something that lets me develop Java code for other platforms and could care less about Swing support for the new Leopard UI. I wish Apple would either release Java 6 that runs with Tiger (even without Leopard support), or release the source to OpenJDK if they aren’t going to maintain it.

The session took place at 9am PDT (about 7 hours ago). Haven’t been able to find any details yet as to what was in it, but will update when info become available.

Update - actually, there was no new info. So Java 6 on OS X is still out in the wilderness…