Dear members, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Daniel and just like many of you, I was a bit surprised to see that Apple will drop the JDK decelopment for Mac OS X.
As I and many of my collegues and friends invested a lot of money in Apple hardware and even more money in Java development, my interest in supporting the OpenJDK BSD Port was sparked. I already am building and testing OpenJDK 7 regularily on my Mac and I've realized there is still a bit of work left until OpenJDK will be as tightly integrated in Mac OS X's L&F as Apple's own JDK. Hoping that Apple will show some goodwill towards it's customers, I've started a petition asking Apple to contribute it's JDK source to the OpenJDK BSD Effort and I hope that you guys want to sign it. You can find it at http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/macjdk and I will send it to Apple once we reached 10000 signatures, so tell everybody you think has any interest in having a first class Mac JDK! Daniel
