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Re: J2SE 1.5 Beta 1 for MacOS X ?

I just found that IntelliJ's IDEA 4.0 release candidate helps incorporate the JSR014 Generics prototype compiler <http://java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/adding_generics/index.html> into the IDE. This would allow one to use the 1.4.2 j2se whilst getting a taste of the major part of what is to come. Has anyone tried this? Is it any different from what we can expect with generics support in j2se 1.5?

Anyway, one really good reason Apple should want this platform to be lagging not too far behind is that we are all lucky to have James Gosling using a Mac for his work. <http://www.apple.com/pro/science/gosling/>. (In fact that was part of the reason I felt comfortable switching to Apple from Linux). And we can be pretty sure that he would like to work with the latest toys :-) So Apple, please help keep Gosling on board.

I would be willing to bet that the typical Apple consumer has changed a lot in the past few years to include people from many walks of life that would never have been near Apple before Steve Jobs rescued the company. There are people using a Mac now that are the types that come up with the Next Big Thing (TM).

Henry


On 5 Feb 2004, at 18:32, email@hidden wrote:

email@hidden wrote:
| Recently, Sun released a beta version of it's new J2SE 1.5.
| At work I played around with the new stuff for a while, on an
| old Ultra-10 box. The features they added are quite impressive
| and interesting. But...
|
| When will there be a MacOS X release of the new JDK ?

The answer is the same as for everything else from Apple: when it's done. Apple doesn't reveal schedules. Period.

What *is* it with Java people? Java 1.4.2 is *just* out, and already people are complaining because 1.5 isn't in their hands. This happens for every single release. Java seems to be the only environment where people are positively *eager* to limit the customer base by building software that can't possibly run on anything but the latest, cutting-edge version. (Yet Apple gets condemned for not supporting 1.4 back to OS 9. Go figure.)

Glen Fisher
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