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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. 1.4 has scrollwheel support! by Nipsy356 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whooohoooo.... Finally, I can wield the mighty power of the scroll wheel, using it to comabt evil, and cause carpal tunnel the world over! Now if only Acrobat Reader admitted the existence of the all mighty scroll wheel...

  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).

    1. Re:Not quite the latest by whee · · Score: 5, Informative

      As with any preview release, there are lots of bugs. Some related to 1.4.1, some related to this specific implementation. Apple spends a lot of time with their Java implementation, so anything fixed in Sun's 1.4.1_01 will be fixed by the time this is released.

  3. Re:Strange by Lars+T. · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

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    Lars T.

    To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck

  4. Re:Strange by MoneyT · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?

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    T Money
    World Domination with a plastic spoon since 1984