Comic: Apple’s Pathetic Java Support? Oh Really?
October 27th, 2007
Dear Steve,
Writing your own JDK is really hard. Maybe you should follow Microsoft’s lead and let Sun do the dirty work?

Dear Steve,
Writing your own JDK is really hard. Maybe you should follow Microsoft’s lead and let Sun do the dirty work?

Nice cartoon!
BTW, Apple licenses Sun’s JDK, so effectively Sun is writing the bulk of Apple’s JDK already. Apple is really just adapting it to the OS, probably most changes are in the GUI toolkit which presumably is all Apple.
1. What version of Java is in Leopard?
2. Is it by default a 32bit Java or 64bit?
3. Does SWT and therefore Eclipse work on Leopard?
Xavier
1.java 5
2.both
3.yes-confirmed
1. more specifically I read somewhere it was Java 1.5.0_13