>Hi,
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>I read a review of MAC X (10.2) and in the article there was a statement that caught my eye. It said that development under MAC was improved due to a new apple JAVA. It went on to say that most of the improvement was due to drawing performance. I've checked a little into the MAC world web sites and I did not find any such statements. I've also not used JAVA in a while. Does anybody know what the recent improvements in "APPLE" JAVA (whatever that is) they are talk about.
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>John


John,
After your msg and what Leland wrote I decided to investigate:
Here is the website URL http://www.apple.com/java/ which confirms that:

Cool, Refreshing Graphics
Java has never looked this good. All Java applications use Aqua, the amazing liquid look and feel native to Mac OS X. Windows are double-buffered for faster refresh, and support live-resizing and dragging. All drawing is done using Quartz, the Mac OS X PDF-based imaging model, providing amazingly crisp anti-aliased text and better performance for complex drawing operations.

Blazingly Fast Threading
In Mac OS X, Java threads are implemented directly on top of native Mach threads, allowing efficient scheduling using true preemptive multitasking. This also allows threaded applications to automatically use multiple CPUs, for blazingly fast performance.

Speaking Your Language
Since Mac OS X is a fully multi-lingual system, Java on Mac OS X automatically sets the default locale to match the user’s language choice. Mac OS X also provides full Unicode support, so your Java application can mix and match characters from any available font.