On Feb 3, 2005, at 9:43 AM, Daniel John Debrunner wrote:
Is there a newer JVM (1.3 or later) for MacOS 9.1 or later 9.x versions?
Nope. Development of MRJ ceased at 2.2.6, and that was also only up to the JDK 1.1.8 spec. Apple released its first JDK 1.3 JVM with Mac OS X. As far as I am aware, there are also no third-party JVMs for MacOS 9.x. In fact, I have open bugs that I filed with Apple using an old version of Cloudscape (3.5, i think) with MRJ. I'm guessing that those will never be fixed.
In my situation, I have never bothered to upgrade the iMac at home to
MacOS X because I'm not sure what value I would get given the computer's
use. So this may be a common situation.
Even for surfing the web, the ability to use a more modern web browser would be attractive, although Mozilla 1.2.1 does still work quite well. Personally, I enjoy having real multitasking and BSD underneath the covers. But if you're interested in developing something in Java, the ability to use a JDK 1.3 (or higher) JVM on your computer might be a significant reason to upgrade. :-)
andrew
