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Great Dave

macrumors regular
Original poster
Oct 19, 2007
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Landon Fuller beat Apple to getting Java 6 on the Mac!!

Well, actually, he says he got a lot of help from OpenBSD and FreeBSD people, but still he got Java 6 on the Mac!!

Has anyone here actually tried it out? How does it fair with Netbeans 6?

I still hope Apple will officially release something though. It seems like a lot of times Apple waits for someone else to do something before they get moving, e.g. Widgets/Dashboard, Windows on MacTels, etc. etc. So, maybe this is the fire they needed.

Anyway, I think this is great news!!
 

eastcoastsurfer

macrumors 6502a
Feb 15, 2007
600
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Landon Fuller beat Apple to getting Java 6 on the Mac!!

Well, actually, he says he got a lot of help from OpenBSD and FreeBSD people, but still he got Java 6 on the Mac!!

Has anyone here actually tried it out? How does it fair with Netbeans 6?

I still hope Apple will officially release something though. It seems like a lot of times Apple waits for someone else to do something before they get moving, e.g. Widgets/Dashboard, Windows on MacTels, etc. etc. So, maybe this is the fire they needed.

Anyway, I think this is great news!!

Getting Java 6 on osx is probably way down on the priority list for Apple. They are too busy figuring out ways to relock unlocked iPhones.
 

portent

macrumors 6502a
Feb 17, 2004
623
2
Using X11 for windowing.

By that logic, this guy was "beaten" by the first guy who got Linux and 1.6 installed on Apple hardware.
 
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