Java 5 for OS X 10.4 Tiger is here

Apple released Java 5 for OS X today. (Also known confusingly as both “Java 2 SE 5.0 Release 1″ by Apple and as Java 1.5 to Java developers who are used to the 1.x versioning scheme.) It only runs on OS X 10.4 Tiger, so that’s a good enough reason by itself for Java developers on Mac to get Tiger. Of course, there’s tons of other reasons like Spotlight, Automator, Dashboard, etc.

Eclipse runs fine on it, with the exception of starting it from Spotlight. But just start it from Finder, command line, or the Dock and you’ll be fine.

Thanks to Marcello for pointing this out on the Eclipse-Mac group

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Published:: 4.29.05 / 3pm

Category:: Desktop Java, Eclipse, Mac OS X

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Jörg 4.29.05 / 4pm

Let’s hope they’ll bring it out as a regular software update also for pre-Tiger versions of OS X?! I mean, if they didn’t, that would be pretty bad for application developers.
Adrian Sutton 4.29.05 / 7pm

As has been stated by Apple many, many times, Java 1.5 will never be made available for anything prior to 10.4.
magomarcelo 5.5.05 / 10am

yet there is some possibility to make it work on 10.3, even if the solution is far from perfect… I did it myself… (in italian) http://magomarcelo.blogspot.com/2005/05/ok-ci-abbiamo-provato.html

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I also develop my own Mac OS X and iPhone apps via my company Happy Apps. The first of these apps is WebnoteHappy, a bookmark manager for Mac OS X which lets you tag your bookmarks and synchronizes with del.icio.us.

I have been making iPhone applications for clients the past year through my company Happy Apps LLC. Through Happy Apps, I have also been developing Mac OS X apps and Ruby Rails apps for the past 3 1/2 years. For over 14 years, I’ve been developing commercial and in-house applications in Smalltalk, Java, Ruby and Objective-C.

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