The next version of Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS, formerly Seebeyond ICANN) will be available for Mac OS X. While Sun will not support production use of this platform, we will ship a Mac OS X build for development, testing and demo purposes. I downloaded and installed our internal milestone 6 yesterday on my Macbook Pro and, so far so good, it seems to run as fine as the Solaris or Windows version.
As Netbeans and Glassfish are at the heart of this future version, and because they just run well on Mac OS X, it would have been surprising to not publish a Mac OS X build for Java CAPS.
Other platforms available for this M6 build are AIX, Linux, in addition of Windows and Solaris of course.
While this move won’t probably drastically change the adoption rate of Java CAPS, it will make the life of many developers easier, as they will be able to use the Mac as their main development or test platform, with the exact same tool as the one used for production.
Many Sun Sales Engineers and Professional Services Engineers are using Macs as well. For us too, having a native build will avoid playing with huge virtual machines images, just for the purpose of demo.
Thumbs up guys, great job – Thanks !
#1 by Christian Brennsteiner on 06/02/2008 - 00:17
hi sebastien,
is it somehow possible as a customer to get thos builds for "playing".
regards chris
#2 by Sebastien Stormacq on 06/02/2008 - 02:28
Some large customers are part of a *private* Early Access Program. This is very limited to some high volume customers and will not be expanded as a general beta program.
Just to be clear : right now, there is no announced support for CAPS on OSX.
There _may_ be an open beta program for CAPS 6 but that has not yet been announced.
However, it is possible for customers to download a release of OpenESB for OSX.
https://open-esb.dev.java.net/Downloads_OpenESB_Addons_NB6.html
OpenESB is the open source project where Sun is developing the technology for future releases of CAPS. This will allow your customer to play with technology that will be part of CAPS. When an open beta program for CAPS 6 is announced it _may_ then be possible to get an OSX build of the product for development testing. But we cannot promise them anything right now.
You should contact your local Sun Sale representative anyhow.
#3 by Regis Kuzel on 20/02/2008 - 10:31
Are you kidding! 🙂 This is GREAT NEWS! I am a former SeeBeyond and up to 6 months ago, a PC user. I love my MACBook Pro and have had great results with VMware Fusion for running Java CAPS, which demo nearly every day.
In the process of downloading CAPS6 bits, when will the MAC/OS version be available?
Regards,
Regis