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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. 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).