I never had much interest in Boot Camp before but unfortunately I had to install it on my iMac along with Vista so that I can do Java 6 development. I suspect I'm going to be spending most of my time in the Vista partition instead of OS X. Luckily, the iMac runs Vista surprisingly well.
I tried running Eclipse in Parallels through a Vista image for a while, but it started driving me nuts. I can't develop software like that.
I've resisted posting to this mailing list about this because I felt the list was for Java code questions. Well, to heck with that. This list isn't going to be used for anything at all in a couple years anyway since Apple has abandoned Java. Having a 1.5 release in Leopard is much like supporting Leopard on PowerPC hardware. Apple doesn't want to do it and probably won't do it in the next release, and it was only done in Leopard because they felt they had to.
Sorry to the folks that run this list, but you guys have an advantage we don't have- a direct line of communication with the managers who are making all these poor decisions and not communicating with us.
Personally I would be willing to pay for a Java 6 implementation from a third party. The model could be, the JRE is free for all and the JDK has to be purchased. If 10,000 Java developers were willing to buy a JDK at $79, that is $790,000. I appreciate the open source work being done but I think some commercial backing is really necessary to push it ahead to the next level.
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