The “Break it Down” Blog

A while back we covered the new Consumer JRE coming from Sun to improve Java on the desktop in a myriad of ways (hit the link for summary and screenshots). The original goal was to have beta portions of this ready during the end of this year, but it looks like one of the core features, the “Java Kernel”, is done and will be included in Update 4 of Java 6 due out later this year (Current version is Update 2, which means Update 3 is likely going through testing right now).

So we still have a ways to go before the release, but it’s still great news that the work gone done and stabilized so quickly. Hopefully the rest of Consumer JRE can roll out as the year closes out.