So, everybody knows that Apple's OS X Leopard operating system did not ship with Java 6. Even Java 5 did not work too well on it. Which is sad.

But then a smart individual called Landon Fuller stood up and with the help of the open source community he ported a version of BSD Java 6 to Leopard. This project is called SoyLatte and today they announced third preview release.

It is not production ready yet and it works only on Intel Macs at the moment. There are things missing like sound and native Swing implementation. But it seems to be active project and very interesting to follow. Unfortunately my mac is older with PPC architecture and this port wont work on it.

SoyLatte project site
Landon Fuller's blog