Yes, there are a few! What version of the OS are you talking about? OS X comes with a complete JDK 1.3.1 installed. OS 9 and before had a downloadable Java runtime, called Mac Runtime for Java, or MRJ, that could be installed. (The current incarnation is also called MRJ, btw, but since it's not a separate install, it's transparent to the user.) The OS 9 JVM is only JDK 1.1.8, though. You can download it here: http://developer.apple.com/java/download.html. OS X is the way to go if your friend has any reasonably modern Mac.
You can also run Jikes on OS X, if you don't want to use the Sun+Apple javac. Incidentally, Tomcat runs great on OS X. For a howto, please see my website: www.javaosx.com. For general Java on Mac OS docs, see developer.apple.com. -Ian On Monday, Aug 19, 2002, at 04:46 US/Pacific, Gunter D'Hondt wrote: > I know this is a bit of topic here but a friend asks me if there is a > java-compiler (jdk or whatever) that runs on a macintosh? > Anybody knows anything more about java and mac? > > Any tip/suggestion/help is welcome! > Greetings, > Gunter. > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
