Macs and Java 1.6 -- advice, please?

Hi everybody,
I have a Java application that I want to port across Windows, Mac, and Linux, but it uses Java 1.6, and from what I've been gathering from a day or two of research, Java 1.6 is fairly limited on Macs. Can anyone give me some advice on what I should do? I can't remember everything I use from 1.6 off the top of my head, but it's at least SplashScreen and FilenameExtensionFilter.
Thanks,
Jezzica85

jezzica85 wrote:
Whoa, wait a minute. All the Macs in the last few years have been Intel 64-bit, without exception? How long is this "few years"? 2005? 2006? I haven't heard anything about that, where did you learn that? I would say 2007. Maybe a bit earlier. Apple totally dropped PPC at the start of 2006 and then started using 64 bit almost exclusively very soon after. I must admit that some of this is my conjecture but it seems to me that Apple didn't bother with a 1.6 non-64 bit because they didn't want to support and develop a newer Java on hardware they consider "obsolete".
If the Macs that handle 1.6 are 64-bit, why can't they handle dynamic library loading?I have absolutley no idea.

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