Java 6u10 on Mac?
May 13th, 2008
I’ve heard chatter that the JavaFX demos at JavaOne were done on Macs. The problem is, as far as I know, Java 6u10 isn’t available for OSX. So what’s up with that? Is Sun working on porting JavaFX to OSX, or were they maybe using Apple hardware but running Windows or Linux?
Someone help me understand this.
Many aspects of 6u10 are simply classes that can be pre-pended to the bootclasspath.
JavaFX doesn’t require 6u10. It did run on Android after all. 6u10 is more about incrementally downloading the VM itself than adding new APIs (which it shouldn’t do).
They ran their demos on Windows XP, see for yourself:
They have videos of the event available via their RSS-Feed http://public-xml.feedroom.com/public_rss/sun_rss.xml
So then I’m confusing JavaFX with new Applet features, like ability to drag an applet to the desktop. Presumably this requires some native support, far beyond just adding JARs to the classpath.