As Landon Fuller has blogged yesterday, SoyLatte 1.0 has been released. SoyLatte is a project to port BSD Java 6 for Mac OSX 10.4 and 10.5 . Why this is interesting? Apple doesn't seem willing or capable of releasing Java 6 for OSX themselves and it's really annoying that I have to boot up my Parallels VM when I need to use a Java 6 JDK for particular projects. Also: CF 8 on Windows runs absolutely fine on Java 6 (besides that it's quite fast :) and us poor Mac users have to run it on Java 5.
All that being said, I put of a lot of hope into this release and will report if and how well it works later - it's one of my todo's for this weekend...:)
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There is a preview build of it available from apple. You need to sign up for a developer account. It's free. https://connect.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MemberSite.woa/wa/getSoftware?bundleID=19921&source=x&code=y
Yeah, I'm aware of the preview build. But wouldn't you agree that it's some sort of a shame that it's months old, was never updated and that Apple doesn't make any proper statement on Java on OSX. So - I'm happy to go with Soy Latte instead.
The preview is release 6, but is not Java 6, it includes updates for Java 1.4 and Java 5, nothing to do with 6. The preview for Java 6 was pulled before Leopard came out.