This is great news and confirms my prior suspicions. Finally, one can safely target Java 6 on the Mac, as I expect PPC Macs to become slowly irrelevant and most users to upgrade to Snow Leopard.
Update 2009-08-29: We finally have more reliable confirmation that 32bit Macs will be able to run Java 6 on Snow Leopard. This is a big deal and I don’t understand why Apple hasn’t made this more public.
Update 2009-09-02: More information on this topic, including how-tos for getting Eclipse running with Java 6.
Update 2010-12-05: Java on Mac OS X Lion: the redux. News on what will happen to Java on Mac OS 10.7.
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I hope you're right. Is that link reliable? It's a couple of months old and doesn't indicate where it gets its information.
Assuming it's correct, do you think that Apple will make the 32-bit Java 6 available for all Intel Macs via Software Update, or will we have to pay for the Snow Leopard upgrade?
The link only instills me with moderate confidence, but combined with the reasoning in my other blog post, the odds are now definitely in favor of 32bit Java.
As for Apple backporting, I'm not holding by breath. Alas, Apple's Java history is not encouraging. At least Snow Leopard is not too expensive.
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