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SoyLatte 1.0 – Java 6 for OSX

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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This entry was written by kai, posted on Thursday December 06 2007 at 12:12 am, filed under Agent K on Java and tagged , , , . Bookmark the permalink . Post a comment below or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

3 Responses to “SoyLatte 1.0 – Java 6 for OSX”

  1. ernest leitch, on December 6th, 2007 at 12:00 am Said:

    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

  2. Kai, on December 7th, 2007 at 12:00 am Said:

    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.

  3. Jeremie Weldin, on December 12th, 2007 at 12:00 am Said:

    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.

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