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"Kenneth P. Turvey" <kt-usenet@squeakydolphin.com> writes:

> Lately I've been considering getting a mac for my next 
> computer purchase.  Hardware is a hassle and I just don't want to deal 
> with little hassles anymore.
...
> That said, I'm not going to move to a system that isn't based on Unix.  
> I'm just a lot more productive on a Unix like system.
> 
> Back to Java.... 

OK, first of all let me say that I'm a big Mac fan and amateur
evangelist.  But it can be really, really frustrating being a Java
developer using a Mac.  New Java versions appear with fairly long lag
times on the Mac.  For instance, Java 6 was JUST released this past
week.  (It was available as a developer build for a while longer.)

Apple also infuriatingly tends to be very silent about the state of Java
and their plans, so there was a great deal of uproar concerning the
release of Java 6.  Also, there is usually a tendency to not release the
newest versions for older versions of the OS, so you do have to keep up
with the latest OS releases.  But that can be an issue for any software
you want to distribute, since users who don't have the latest OS version
won't have the latest Java either.

This puzzles me greatly, since it seems, IMHO, that Apple stands to gain
much more from the cross-platform nature of Java than Microsoft, and
yet, Java is often a lot slower to appear on the Mac platform.  I just
don't get it at all.

-- 
Thomas A. Russ,  USC/Information Sciences Institute

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