Comments on: News Flash: Apple Finally Released Java 6 for MacOS X!

By: Brandon Harper

Brandon Harper — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:38:31 +0000

Hey Everyone,

I guess I should have just let it slip and read it better in the morning– it was really early and I had my hopes up about Java 6 finally being out. Sorry for the false alarm, that was dumb.

Anyhow, I’ve updated the entry accordingly. Damn.

By: John Kuczynski

John Kuczynski — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:37:46 +0000

If you read carefully that is just an update for Java 1.4 and 5.0. Update 6 just means it’s the 6th update released from Apple for Java (1.5 I presume).

By: Nate

Nate — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:32:56 +0000

This actually looks like just an update to Java 1.4.2 and Java 1.5 (according to the details of the update).

By: bloid

bloid — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:25:32 +0000

This is release 6 of Java 5, not release 1 of Java 6… There is a difference…

By: anon

anon — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:20:24 +0000

I think what Peter is saying is that this isn’t Java 6, but Java 5 - at least according to the message window above.

By: Tom Cornilliac

Tom Cornilliac — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:42:08 +0000

I just checked my updater and sadly no Java 6 for the Leopard users.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:41:43 +0000

That is just not true. Apple still take responsibility for “porting” Sun’s releases over to OSX.

By: Vineet

Vineet — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:40:31 +0000

Nope not for Leopard users yet!

http://docs.info.apple.com/art.....num=307051

Going to that URL gives Document not found??

By: Cowardous Anonym

Cowardous Anonym — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:28:53 +0000

Nope, this is not Java 6.

This is *sixth updater* and updates Java to 1.5.0_13 and 1.4.2_16 (it even says so in the description box). There is no Leopard version because Leopard already contains these versions.

By: Sebastien Arbogast

Sebastien Arbogast — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:20:18 +0000

Too bad it has absolutely nothing to do with Java 6. It’s just a 6th update for JDK 1.4.