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Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 2


Apple has just released Java Update 2 for Mac OS X. According to Apple, this update "delivers improved reliability and compatibility for Java SE 6, J2SE 5.0 and J2SE 1.4.2 on Mac OS X 10.5.4 and later."

You can find more information about this update by visiting the release notes. You can download this 136.4MB update by opening Software Update (Apple menu > Software Update) or by downloading the installer package from Apple's support website.

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Apple has just released Java Update 2 for Mac OS X. According to Apple, this update "delivers improved reliability and compatibility for...
 

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Jeff

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!

October 02 2008 at 12:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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stan

This package gets stuck in configuration on my MB pro as well.

November 28 2008 at 9:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
frostY

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.

September 25 2008 at 1:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Leo

Check out Zipeg http://www.zipeg.com
It is Java. Try to open encrypted mutipart RAR file by BOM Archive Helper.

BTW, speaking of new techonologies Objective C:
"Objective-C was created primarily by Brad Cox and Tom Love in the early 1980s at their company Stepstone."

NeXT Step:
"Nextstep 1.0 was released on September 18, 1989 after several previews starting in 1986"

And to be 100% honest - both of them so dated, obsolete and hard to comprehend. Unreliable too.

Welcome to 21st century.

September 25 2008 at 8:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
eatmytag

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

September 25 2008 at 10:23 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
webstuff

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.

September 25 2008 at 9:20 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
skrab

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!!

September 25 2008 at 4:38 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Richard.

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

September 25 2008 at 12:04 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Richard.

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.

September 24 2008 at 10:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mrsteveman1

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

apple can bite me

September 24 2008 at 9:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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bobics

I concur. I end up using SoyLatte for dev work... which isn't ideal. :(

September 25 2008 at 1:15 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jacques Lema

That one is really miserable. Windows has had java 1.6 for ages and Linux has had it too.

If you convinced your boss you could work with java just a well on a mac and you have to use java 6, you're in a sad situation.

I guess you could just reboot into windows .. or use VMware to run java... sigh.

September 25 2008 at 2:10 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris M

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

September 24 2008 at 9:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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ThePengwin

You mean like the iPhone?

September 24 2008 at 9:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
John Doe

Coffee?

September 24 2008 at 6:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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required

Yes please.

September 24 2008 at 9:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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