[PJUG Javamail] Java on the Macintosh

[Howard Abrams]

You are correct. That is the "official answer". So, if you can't  
compile down or upgrade the machine, you might want to check into the  
SoyLatte project. http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/static/soylatte/

As you noted, there are ways of working around it, including working  
with some
On Dec 27, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Zack Radick wrote:

> I encountered something a bit surprising over the holiday and thought
> I would do a quick sanity check.  I was going to run some software I
> had written on my mother's Macintosh (OS X 10.2.8) and noticed that
> it had a 1.3.1 JVM (the code was compiled with 1.5) so I dug around
> on the Internet to try and find a compatible 1.5 JVM.  What I
> discovered was that Apple does not make a 1.5 JVM for that version of
> OS X and Sun does not appear to produce JVMs for Mac at all.   The
> only way I can see to get a 1.5 JVM on her Mac would be to buy a new
> Operating System (OS X 10.3+).  Yes, I could compile my source with a
> -version property, but I was just a bit flummoxed to discover that
> there are versions of OS X that don't (and will not ever if I
> understand it) support Java 1.5.  Am I missing something?
> Thanks,
> --Zack
>
>
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