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Apple Releases Java 1.4.1 Developer Preview

Posted by pudge on from the cup-o-steve^Wjoe dept.

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."

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  1. Apples go good with coffee by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Apple's commitment to java is great. I don't think any other platform has as good of an implementation as OS X does right now. The 1.4.1 JDK is a long way from being released main stream in my opinion, not because the implementation is goign to take so long, but rather because Apple is going to take the time to do it right

  2. Not quite the latest by gaj · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I'm not an ADC member, so perhaps the article was just wrong, but Sun has 1.4.1_01 (first patch release to 1.4.1) out and available for Linux, Solaris and Windows.

    1.4.1 had some major breakage (e.g. drag-n-drop was f'ed up pretty good). I just dloaded 1.4.1_01, and haven't yet read the release notes, but if they fixed the things that were obviously borken in 1.4.1, it'll be a damn fine upgrade for those Mac folk stuck back on 1.3.1. Lots of bugs fixed, lots of improvements.

    Though I don't use Macs, here's hoping that Apple has a clue and either releases 1.4.1_01 or at least merges the most importent bug fixes back into their 1.4.1 tree (assuming their contract with Sun allows for that).

  3. Java3D by DiSKiLLeR · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But what about Java3D???

    Will OSX ever see it?

    D.

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  4. Re:Scrolling and J2ME, among other things... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    as has been stated before, apple is the only thing thats preventing java technologies from being "easily available" on apple platforms.

    i would imagine that its in apple's interests to have java apps run the "right way" on macs, and so instead of putting it in the hands of someone else, they just do it themselves. could be the reason why java apps tend to run better on os x and for the most part behave like any other application. (double clickable jar files, etc.)