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04/29/2008, 8:45pm, EDT
Tuesday, April 29th
Apple adds Java SE 6 to Mac OS X Leopard
Apple has released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 for 64-bit Intel Macs, finally enabling Java 1.6 on the newest Mac OS X Leopard release. The update adds support for Java SE 6, specifically version 1.6.0_05, although v1.6.0_06 is the latest release. Apple says that the release "does not change the default version of Java" and is only for Mac OS X v10.5.2 and later; it should not be installed on earlier versions of Mac OS X: "This release is for 64-bit Intel-based Macs only and cannot run on PowerPC-based or 32-bit Intel-based Macs," Apple wrote in its documentation. The 58MB update is available via the Mac OS X Software Update. Apple notes that the release, first seeded to developers in early March, provides several additional features including support for AppleScript as a javax.script language, new API for altering the application Dock icon, and native support for document modal sheets.
Java SE 6 support was added to Mac OS X Tiger last December.
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Other story tags: Leopard, Java, system updates, Mac OS X 10.5
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silly cats
Is it just me or is it really hard to remember which cat is 10.4 and which is 10.5?
why not ppc...
... or is this why they 'retired" ("obsoleted"?) a whole raft of ppc models just last week...
SE 6 on Tiger?
You say: * Java SE 6 support was added to Mac OS X Tiger last Decemberbut the link you point to says: * The update is said to improve "reliability and compatibility" for Java SE 5.0 and Java 1.4;As far as I know there is no SE 6 for Tiger (10.4)
64-bit only
My first rev. MacBook Pro weeps, because it was left out of the party. Core Duo, but not Core 2 Duo, bummer.
core duo
Core Duo Macs are not that old and really shouldn't already be excluded from software updates...
question
as far as I know, only a few sites I visit rely on Java....am I missing something? What does SE6 support mean?
Java
If you are a Java developer (as I am), this is a welcome update. Finally Java 6 comes to Mac OS X (even if it is .01 behind the general Sun JRE releases). Java SE6 support means that all of the neat stuff Sun has in Java 6 will finally be available on the Mac. As a user, it probably means little right now. As a developer, it means Windows, Linux and Mac OS X now have Java 6 support, so it is finally OK to start building apps reliant on Java 6 for multi platform roll out.
isn't java irrelevant now
I told Software Update to ignore this update. Java? Seriously, in 2008, on a client machine, who really cares? I'm tired of having to download a sixty meg update to three machines every two weeks as a new version of the Java monolith is released. And when you install Mac OS X fresh, you have to download each Java update in turn. Crazy.