Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 2

I have never had this problem before with Software Update, but this specific pkg gets stuck on configuring,

I found it manually in my library folder and i'm running it from there.. wish me luck!

I think Java desktop apps have an undeserved bad reputation. I use several Java apps on a daily basis, and they work great. Swing have really improved the last couple of years, and performance and look-and-feel is now good. On OS X they can even be made to feel 100% native. I have been using the excellent Cyberduck FTP client for years thinking it was a native app before I found out that it is actually written in Java.

It is very sad to see that Apple is so slow to adopt the latest Java platform. Because of this, it is not possible to use OS X as a primary development platform for Java apps. Apple has done a great job of adapting Java to OS X, but I wish they would work faster. Soon Java 7 will be out, but it will probably take years before that one comes to OS X.

Bah! I thought that Apple at last had released 1.6 for 32 bit Intel machines.

I think a lot of people confuse Java with Javascript. Java is NOT really used that much at all. Javascript, on the other hand, is used virtually everywhere. This update does NOTHING for Javascript.

Hi! after installation(from application update), several apps where in dutch on my swedish system, so fetch the new java from apples site, that fixed the problem!!

This update completely removes the ability to enable smooth text, it's ridiculous!

Hopefully the spellcheck now works in this version, cause they removed it last java update. I've had to keep selecting v1.42 to use if I wanted spellcheck in my applets.

still no java6 for anyone but 64bit intel users i assume.

apple can bite me

Java is a must have for any modern browser/OS and if you don't see that well then, FAIL!

Coffee?