Java News from Friday, February 24, 2006

Apple has posted the sixth beta of Java 5 (Tiger) Release 4 for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) on the Apple Developer Connection (first born child required). This is based on Sun's J2SE 1.5.0_06. Most importantly it finally makes Java 1.5 the default instead of 1.4. This release is compatible with the Intel Macs.