Java hom foer the Mac Snow Leopard?

[Roedy Green]

I can find the release notes for Java 1.6 for Mac Snow Leopard but
nothing like a home page for Java on the Mac that points to the
various resources and documentation. Is there one?
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[Roedy Green]

Try <http://developer.apple.com/java/> as the nearest thing to a "Java
home page" on Apple's site. It's actually out of date, as it doesn't
mention that Snow Leopard now comes with (apparently) only Java 1.6
installer, from what I'm hearing (I haven't upgraded yet). But it has
numerous links to resources.

Thanks. Unfortunately the page has many broken links. I have reported
them to Apple.
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Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
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"People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it’s an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably helpful to security."
~ James Gosling (born: 1955-05-18 age: 54), inventor of Java.

 

[Kevin McMurtrie]

I can find the release notes for Java 1.6 for Mac Snow Leopard but
nothing like a home page for Java on the Mac that points to the
various resources and documentation. Is there one?

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[Kevin McMurtrie]

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Update: 10.6 deletes all JVMs except 1.6 then points all the JVM
version symlinks to 1.6. Even with 1.6 code I'm hitting a bug in javac.
Restoring the old JVMs from backups seems to work but I recommend not
installing 10.6.

 

[Arved Sandstrom]

Update: 10.6 deletes all JVMs except 1.6 then points all the JVM
version symlinks to 1.6. Even with 1.6 code I'm hitting a bug in javac.
Restoring the old JVMs from backups seems to work but I recommend not
installing 10.6.

Err, what bug is that? I and two colleagues are going to be installing
Snow Leopard in a few days, and anything whacked with this and Java we
need to know about. Would you add anything to
http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/blo...blogitem&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=blogrss?

Thanks.

AHS

 

[John B. Matthews]

[...]
Update: 10.6 deletes all JVMs except 1.6 then points all the JVM
version symlinks to 1.6. Even with 1.6 code I'm hitting a bug in
javac. Restoring the old JVMs from backups seems to work but I
recommend not installing 10.6.

Err, what bug is that? I and two colleagues are going to be installing
Snow Leopard in a few days, and anything whacked with this and Java we
need to know about. Would you add anything to

<http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/blog/ken_sipe/2009/09/
fixing_java_on_mac_snow_leopard>
<http://wiki.oneswarm.org/index.php/OS_X_10.6_Snow_Leopard>

These articles suggest installing from a file found on a server at
washington.edu. Without knowing the version, I'd consider updating an
existing 10.5 installation of Java 1.5 and migrating it to 10.6 as
described in the article. Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 5 may be found
here:

<http://support.apple.com/kb/DL924>

"This release updates Java SE 6 to version 1.6.0_15, J2SE 5.0 to version
1.5.0_20, and J2SE 1.4.2 to 1.4.2_22."

[OT: I'm calling it Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Vista" until it's out of beta.]

 

[Arved Sandstrom]

[...]
Update: 10.6 deletes all JVMs except 1.6 then points all the JVM
version symlinks to 1.6. Even with 1.6 code I'm hitting a bug in
javac. Restoring the old JVMs from backups seems to work but I
recommend not installing 10.6.

Err, what bug is that? I and two colleagues are going to be installing
Snow Leopard in a few days, and anything whacked with this and Java we
need to know about. Would you add anything to

<http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/blog/ken_sipe/2009/09/
fixing_java_on_mac_snow_leopard>
<http://wiki.oneswarm.org/index.php/OS_X_10.6_Snow_Leopard>

These articles suggest installing from a file found on a server at
washington.edu. Without knowing the version, I'd consider updating an
existing 10.5 installation of Java 1.5 and migrating it to 10.6 as
described in the article. Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 5 may be found
here:

<http://support.apple.com/kb/DL924>

"This release updates Java SE 6 to version 1.6.0_15, J2SE 5.0 to version
1.5.0_20, and J2SE 1.4.2 to 1.4.2_22."

[OT: I'm calling it Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Vista" until it's out of beta.]

Good info - thanks.

AHS

 

[Kevin McMurtrie]

Err, what bug is that? I and two colleagues are going to be installing
Snow Leopard in a few days, and anything whacked with this and Java we
need to know about. Would you add anything to
http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/blog/ken_sipe/2009/09/fixing_java_on_mac_snow_
leopard?utm_source=blogitem&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=blogrss?

Thanks.

AHS

This doesn't compile in 10.6's Java 1.6 because it thinks the variable
'c' can not be an instance of ImplClass. This bug is OLD, like from
1.5.0_07 or so.


abstract class AbstractClass<SUBCLASS extends AbstractClass<SUBCLASS>>
{
}

class ImplClass extends AbstractClass<ImplClass>
{
public void doSomething(AbstractClass<?> c)
{
if (c instanceof ImplClass)
System.out.println("Me");
else
System.out.println("Other");
}
}