appleworld

Java 6 (finally) for Mac... now what? ... (Read full text)
Available via to Software Update, Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 adds Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_05 to your Mac. This version of Java is only for Mac OS X v10.5.2 and later, and only runs on 64-bit Intel machines. Developers may want to check out the release notes, which detail major new features including an API to work with the Dock icon (getting and setting the image, adding a badge, setting a dock menu, etc.), the ability to provide document-modal dialog sheets, support for Java DTrace probes, AppleScript as a supported lang [...]

Is this official Java 6 on Leopard? ... (Read full text)
This Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 adds Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_05 to your Mac. This update does not replace the existing installation of J2SE 5.0 or change the default version of Java.

MacOS X Leopard sul mio notebook ASUS ... (Read full text)
Ebbene si, non ce l’ho fatta a trattenermi e ho pensato bene di dare un occhiata approfondita al progetto OSx86, dopo che alcuni mesi fa provai un’installazione semiseria di Tiger. Ora è giunto il momento dell’ultimo prodotto di casa Apple, il famoso MacOS X 10.5 “Leopard”. Armato di buona volontà, pazienza e soprattutto curiosità di [...]

OpenJDK on Leopard: What's the Big Deal? ... (Read full text)
I've seen a fair amount of excitement lately over the fact that someone has ported OpenJDK to Leopard. But given what I know about the port, and about Leopard, I have to ask... What is the big deal?

Interview: Porting Open Source Java to Leopard ... (Read full text)
Landon Fuller has been porting open source Java to Leopard. Here he talks about it and about how you can get involved.

Las Vegas Lobbies for Java 6 on Leopard ... (Read full text)
Mike travels to Las Vegas and gets women to pose with "Java 6 on Leopard: Steve, hear our cry" bumper stickers.

Building Mono on Leopard ... (Read full text)
In preparation of the upcoming Mono 1.2.6 release I worked through building Mono from Subversion on Leopard (i386) with Geoff Norton (kangaroo in #mono) in order to shake the rest of the bugs out of Mono on Leopard/i386. There were a couple of caveats, specifically in acquiring the necessary tools for building Mono correctly, as Leopard and the Leopard Developer Tools ship with older versions of pkgconfig(1), autoconf(1) and automake(1).

Nice tidbits in Leopard ... (Read full text)
As many have blogged about, Apple has posted a rather hefty list describing all 300 new features of Leopard. Some specifics that really got the coder in me excited: