Update 19.12.2007:
There is a developer version available. Look here.
Update 18.08.2008:
- How to install the jdk 1.6 for Mac OS 10.5 (32 bit). You will find there how to use JavaFX on the top of this SDK.
- Soy Latte JDK 6
I will collect some links here about the discussion that java 6 is missing on Mac OS X:
- http://blogs.sun.com/bblfish/entry/vote_for_java6_on_leopard
- http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t103042.htm (about the strange string 13949712720901ForOSX)
- http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t102924.html
- http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2007/10/so_no_java_6_wi.html#comments
- http://wolfpaulus.com/journal/java/java6leo.html
- http://blogs.sun.com/jag/entry/solaris_and_os_x_continued
- http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5661781
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Java-dev/2007/Oct//msg00367.html
- http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2007/jw-10-leopard.html?fsrc=rss-index
What could be the reasons?
- Apple is lazy or
- Apple has no money for this or
- Apple wants to hinder java gaining more popularity (They want to push their Flash etc.) or
- The best developer platform ? 😉 Why else ???
Now java 1.6 is not platform independend. We could post an issue in a java bug database …
Apple even removes threads about this in its developer forum.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5660193
And then they say sth. like Why you will love developing on Mac OS X… (http://www.apple.com/macosx/developer/)
- That amazing! I googled (against 13949712720901ForOSX) on 03. November and I found 6 entries. Today (04.11) I found more than 300 !
You can try the following jdk1.6 versions (No garanty for this, they should work for mac os x 10.5 ?):
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