[Building Sakai] The Switch to Java 1.6

[Mustansar Mehmood]

+1
 I think it makes it harder to attract new developers towards developing 
an application that doesn't allow them to use new language/platform 
features.
Stephen Swinsburg wrote:
> I'm not sure we need to abandon the Mac as a development platform 
> because of this Java issue. It's possible that if you have an older 
> Mac you may not be able to run an *official* Apple release of Java 1.6 
> as you might only have a 32bit machine. 
>
> I bought by Macbook Pro in late 2007 and it is 64 bit, so will run 
> Java 1.6 fine. In addition, 64-bit Apple machines were being sold back 
> in 2006 so unless you have a really old machine you will be fine as well.
>
> In any case, for older machines that are 32 bit (ie pre-2006) there 
> are ways of getting Java 1.6 on your system.
>
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
> ---
> Steve Swinsburg
> Portal Systems Developer
> Centre for e-Science
> Lancaster University
> Lancaster
> LA1 4YT
>
> email: s.swinsburg at lancaster.ac.uk <mailto:s.swinsburg at lancaster.ac.uk>
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>
> On 19/03/2009, at 3:12 PM, Charles Hedrick wrote:
>
>> The URL below is as far as I can tell a one-person OS X version 
>> of the BSD port. My sense is that it's fine for a server like Sakai. 
>> The issues are likely to be with audio and other interactive parts, 
>> because those are the areas where OS X is unusual. 
>> See http://community.java.net/mac/ for more details about Java under 
>> OS X. Note that the same person is now working with the BSD community 
>> so that OS X will be supported by future BSD Java releases. In 
>> particular, there is now an interim Java 7 port. They intend to 
>> release Java 7 at the same time Sun does. Because Apple's Java 
>> support has been getting worse and worse, not to mention more opaque 
>> (does anyone know whether they will ever do 1.6 for 32-bit Intel?), 
>> I'd like to see the community plan on either using the BSD port under 
>> OS X or do Sakai development on PC hardware.  (I have a cheap PC 
>> running Solaris on which I do my Sakai work.)
>>
>> As a Mac user myself, I'd prefer not to let Apple's Java release 
>> policies constrain Sakai. I'd rather have us tell our Apple 
>> salespeople that these policies are causing us to plan a move away 
>> from the Mac as a development system. 
>>
>>
>> On Mar 18, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Matthew Jones wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/static/soylatte/
>>
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Mustansar  Mehmood
Educational Sys Dev/Integrator
Academic & Research Computing
Rice University
Houston Texas

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