These issues were addressed by updating to Java version 1.6.0_41. For Mac OS X v10.6 systems, these issues were addressed in Java for Mac OS X v10.6 Update 13.

Switching back to the old Java installation, J2SE 5.0, may resolve these issues. E*TRADE fix Last week we noted an issue in which "Power E*Trade Pro" fails to properly load in some Mac OS X ...

Apple released security updates today for Java for Mac OS X for Java SE 6, J2SE 5.0 and J2SE 1.4.2 on Mac OS X 10.5.7 and later. The unfortunately reality is that Sun fixed these flaws more than ...

Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 (which installs Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_05) is causing issues for some TiVo users who have lost their ability to see TiVos on the local network.

By design, Java 6.0 doesn’t easily support Mac OS X Tiger or earlier versions of Apple’s operating systems. Unfortunately, many users felt that Java 1.5 lacks the juice today’s developers need.

The lack of a fix in Mac OS X 10.5.7 was also noted by Landon Fuller, one of the developers of SoyLatte (a port of Java 6 to Mac OS X, now part of the OpenJDK BSD-Port project) and the co ...

In my experience, Java is used to provide "cheap" Mac support for various business apps. If Java goes away on Mac OS, they'll just drop Mac support, not rewrite stuff in ObjectiveC.

Mac OS Runtime for Java (MRJ) provides Mac users with the ability to run applets and full applications written in Java. The current implementation of MRJ, 2.2.x, is compatible with Sun’s Java ...

The release is for Mac OS X 10.5.6 or later only, though it is available for both PPC and Intel architectures. As of this writing, is no additional information regarding the update.