Apple Releases Java 1.4.1 Developer Preview

kuwan writes "Allen Denison, Java Product Manager at Apple has just sent an email to their java-dev mailing list announcing the availability of a Java 1.4.1 Developer Preview. This preview is available to all ADC members and can be downloaded from the 'Download Software' section of the ADC web site. The preview is under a non-disclosure agreement so you won't be able to talk about it except on a private Apple mailing list. It's good to see that Apple is making progress on Java 1.4 and Mac OS X users will soon have the latest Java VM."

Comments

Re:Strange

[Lars T.]

Bringing out a product fast is anything but a guaranty to have a fast product.

Re:Strange

[MoneyT]

But which is better then, releasing a product fast to the market and patching all the bugs later, or takng the time to catch as many of the bugs as you can and then releasing it?

Scrolling and J2ME, among other things...

[Offwhite98]

I want more things added beyond the basics like support for the scroller on my mouse. I started to learn about the Thinlet framework for a lightweight GUI. It is meant to be used with midp applications, but like most stuff on java.sun.com, it is directed at Windows, Linux and Solaris. I would think by now they would provide a MacOS X download just like most Java application vendors now do.

I have installed the Linux version which is just a shell script which expands data to a directory that you specify, but it just does not work right. I would like a standard MacOS X installer which would set things up properly. If I had that, I would be on my way to developing midp applications. Instead I am going to have to wait till Sun or Apple puts something together.

Apple still does not seem to fully embrace Java anyway. If they did, they would be lobbying Sun or IBM to more quickly roll out these Java frameworks out for MacOS X so that we would not have to run a Windows box to run current Java technologies.

And while I am at it, why does Sun complain that Microsoft is a monopoly while making Java technologies so easily available for Windows and not MacOS X? Sure there is a matter of market share, but the monopoly will not change if Sun is not willing to take actual steps to make the change. Sure it supports Linux, but I still do not see the general public migrating to Linux. I see that happening more and more with MacOS X.

Swing applications run decently on OS X, so Sun should rush to make it the flagship platform.