Comments on: JDK version poll results

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:34:40 +0000

@Mark: I think you can safely assume that Apple will likely never add support for 32-bit processors. However, the Soy Latte project does intend to do exactly that AND back port to older OSes like Tiger. They plan to do the same for Java 7 as well (surely years ahead of Sun). I know there was talk of moving their work into OpenJDK where it could be merged with the source BSD distro, which would be even better.

By: Mark Volkmann

Mark Volkmann — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:06:01 +0000

For me the Apple issue isn’t that they only support Java 6 under the latest version of the OS. The issue is that they only support it machines with 64-bit processors. As far as I know, they haven’t committed to ever supporting Java 6 on 32-processors. My laptop isn’t old enough to consider an upgrade yet!

By: raveman

raveman — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:18:31 +0000

500 warnings is funny, i had more in my home made apps. Plus you can block warnings in your IDE, however if you work at sun it might be hard, because from what i heard of they compile using console and javac(i had sun exam).