Available Now for Mac OS X: Java SE 6.0 Release 1 Developer Preview 1 (Intel)

General Discussions
#1

Just posted to Apple’s java-dev list:

[quote]We have just released Java SE 6.0 Release 1 Developer Preview 1 and it is currently only available for Intel-based Macintosh computers. We will be releasing a DP in the near future for PPC also. We just wanted to get 1.6 out as fast as possible. It is available at the usual location of http://connect.apple.com. Please give us you feedback.

Java SE 6.0 Release 1 Developer Preview 1 (Intel)
Java SE 6 brings a number of new features to the Java SE platform on Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger. This is Developer Preview 1 of Java SE 6.0 Release 1 (1.6.0_b77) for Intel-based Macintosh computers. This preview does not replace existing J2SE installations but should not be installed on systems with critical data. Please see the release notes for more information.
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#2

Be warned! No webstart or fullscreen or PPC version! Not much use to anyone yet.

Cas :slight_smile:

#3

The webstart warning in a little misleading. Java 5 remains installed and the Java 5 WebStart knows how to launch applications that specify a version string of 1.6+

There are other important things to note in the readme though… which I’m not allowed to repeat here because of Apple paranoia…

I will hint though that certain rendering options that were made available in Java 5 on Mac should be tested if you are using Java2D for your game, because it seems Java 6 will be changing some defaults… see the readme…

#4

Thanks for the hint. On Java 5 I found that certain options gave different initial fills & blending defaults. Best not to assume anything regarding drawing contexts me thinks. The Javadoc states that you can’t rely on the initial state of some things. I haven’t signed anything and can say what I like. :slight_smile: