Oct 29 2007
OS X Leopard vs Java 6: Everyone Calm Down!
[update: Of course, the author of this excellent bit of analysis is Eric BURKE ..not "Burns" {/me blushes; looks at ground, fidgets nervously} Oy-vey. Major briano on my part ... must have been channeling an old friend of mine who is, in fact, named Eric Burns. My Apologies to this Eric!! ]
Apple’s java-dev mailing list, and almost every major Java blog on the planet is simply buzzing with the news that Apple didn’t ship Java 6 with Mac OS X 10.5. People are screaming to the heavens about how Apple’s abandoned Java, and how the world is coming to an end: zuul and the key-master have hooked up, the Stay-Puft® Marshmallow Man is stalking the Upper West Side of Manhattan, dogs and cats living together*… People are “threatening” to dump their Macs in the street, the Ubuntu Linux contingent is singing siren-songs to grief-stricken Mac-using Java developers.. it’s almost apocalyptic.Good grief! Everyone needs to CALM DOWN over this! A little perspective please… did you all know that with EVERY SINGLE Mac OS X release Apple has released a major Java update within a couple of weeks of the OS release?See for yourself, Eric Burke explains it with stunning simplicity:
Eric Burke’s Definitive OS X Java Timeline
Why not give Apple a few weeks and see what happens?
*Yes, yes… lots of Ghostbusters references. If you have to ask, you’re too young to be reading this post, and too young to be surfing the Internet without parental supervision. 
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[...] not the end of the world and there are work-arounds and it’s reasonable to expect that Apple will fix these things in the normal course of things, but come on. When Apple makes a mistake you can’t just say “yeah but whatever, no one [...]