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Apple Releases Java Updates for Leopard and Snow Leopard

Tuesday May 18, 2010 2:30 pm PDT by Eric Slivka

Apple today released a pair of Java updates targeting users of Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard.

- Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 2 (78 MB, Requires Mac OS X 10.6.3)

Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 2 delivers improved compatibility, security, and reliability by updating Java SE 6 to 1.6.0_20.

Minor additional information is available in Apple's associated support document. Apple has also documented the security issues fixed with the update.

- Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 7 (122 MB, Requires Mac OS X 10.5.8)

Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 7 delivers improved compatibility, security, and reliability by updating J2SE 5.0 to 1.5.0_24, and updating Java SE 6 to 1.6.0_20 for 64-bit capable Intel-based Macs. J2SE 1.4.2 is no longer being updated to fix bugs or security issues and remains disabled by default in this update.

Apple offers highlighted points of interest on the support document for the release. Details of the security issues addressed in the update are also available.
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beardboy
23 months ago
81.7MB for me.
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Cubert
23 months ago
Does anyone out there understand the Java versioning system?
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Blaat Mekker
23 months ago

Does anyone out there understand the Java versioning system?


What would be the hard part about understanding it?
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dwman
23 months ago
Pardon the ignorant question, but what is Java used for these days anyway?
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rmb7984
23 months ago

Pardon the ignorant question, but is Java used for these days anyway?


I know that SPSS and/or PASW statistics uses it. It's quite annoying that every time they update I have to re-hack it to make it work again on 10.6.
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JavierP
23 months ago

Pardon the ignorant question, but what is Java used for these days anyway?


Its main niche is in server side services/applications. But it's used everywhere from mobile app devel (Android) to desktop apps
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RaceTripper
23 months ago

Pardon the ignorant question, but what is Java used for these days anyway?

I use it to develop mechanical structural engineering tools used on multi-million dollar projects.
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longofest
23 months ago
This is impressive for Apple. Previously, they've gotten really bad about Java security updates, sometimes going months before passing the update down to consumers. This time it only went about 1 month.

Pardon the ignorant question, but what is Java used for these days anyway?


Business: Many large businesses and governments use Java in back-end environments (JMS or as the processor for a web service using JDBC).

Mobile: a ton of games/apps out there for other platforms other than iPhone OS

Other: Bluray movie content is encoded using Java.
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Michaelgtrusa
23 months ago
Seems to have gone ok for me.
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bartolo5
23 months ago

Pardon the ignorant question, but what is Java used for these days anyway?


A lot of desktop apps are java based these days even if you don't realize about it. OpenOffice and Eclipse come to mind. Sun's JVM runtime has got really good in the last few years in terms of speed, so you've got not only java apps but many other (scripting) languages running on top of the java VM.
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