Java 6 for Mac OS X ‘weeks away’
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 28, 2007 at 3:44am
The project to port Java 6 to Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 has been quietly released as a second developer preview for a fresh round of testing, “after the first implementation was thrashed and debugged by a core of around 40 developers,” reports Reg Developer.
It’s hoped the port will be finished and generally available during the next few weeks, according to Landon Fuller, the person leading the project, who’s also a committer to the FreeBSD Java project and is a games developer. New features in the development kit include support for 32-bit Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and a SoyLatte binary release with a string of bug fixes.
The initial port is based on the FreeBSD Java 6, with the next step being to merge the BSD and Apple code into Sun’s OpenJDK project. Future goals are OpenJDK support for Java 7 on Mac OS X (X11 and possibly Aqua) and an “on-time” release of Java 7 for Mac OS X (again X11 and possibly Aqua), according to Reg Hardware.
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