Why do people think that Java won't be available under Lion. I fully expect it to come installed. They have marked it as *deprecated* rather than *optional*. Perhaps it might be missing from 10.8 but I doubt it.
Sam On Oct 26, 2010, at 10:09 PM, Rob Ross wrote: > See here: > > http://jkoala.org/ > > > This so far represents the best possibility of actually making this happen! :) > > And yes, I've donated 50 EUR to the cause, and intend to contribute software > development as well. > > > Rob > > On Oct 26, 2010, at 6:48 PM, Lussier, Denis wrote: > >> It's my personal goal that it be run well behaved Java client (swing >> and swk) and server apps (tomcat, jboss, etc, etc) perfectly. In >> short, any 100% pure java app will run. We must keep in mind that >> older versions of Eclipse for OSX are hardcoded to use the built in >> Apple JVM's and ignore the JAVA_HOME Env variable. In a phase 2 we >> could get ther IcedTea extensions built on the Web so we get the >> Webstart. Stuff and other goodies. >> >> On 10/26/10, MiB <digital.disc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> 24 okt 2010 kl. 13.56 skrev Lussier, Denis: >>> >>>> I believe that getting IcedTea to work on an OSX port is a great >>>> thing, but... I I think this should be an extended goal that's >>>> tackled first for OpenJDK 7 (since it already builds on OSX). >>>> >>>> I think the milestones toward getting a robust OSX release for >>>> OpenJDK 6 should be: >>>> >>>> 1.) Get a baseline build of the latest OpenJDK 6 code bundle >>>> (currently b20) to build on OSX 10.5 Intel in 32-bit mode. There >>>> should be a minimal set of patches applied to the make files and >>>> source code similar to what is currently done for OpenJDK 7 BSD port. >>>> >>>> 2.) Get the above build working as a universal binary. >>> What are the possible pitfalls of making it build and then run on PPC? >>> >>>> >>>> 3.) Make sure the above Universal binary runs really well on 10.4 >>>> PPC thru 10.6 Intel. >>> I assume this means "run well in a compatible fashion on 10.4 Intel/ >>> PPC, 10,5 intel/PPC as well 10.6 Intel". Perhaps obvious, but I just >>> want to make it that. :-) >>> >>> The problem I've had with Landon Fullers Open JDK 7 2009 beta- >>> compilation – Thanks Landon! – is I'm not sure how to make it a full >>> citizen. I've reset JAVA_HOME pointing to it and for some apps, like >>> CLI apps, this works fine and others, like Eclipse or specifically >>> Springsource Tool Suite refuse to run on it. Netbeans accepted it as a >>> target VM, but I haven't been able to start up Netbeans with on it. >>> >>> This leads me to the issue what distributions the Mac openJDK should >>> be compatible with. Is it the openJDK on other platforms or the OS X >>> java implementation style? In 10.6 it's easy to add additional JVM's, >>> but seems less so in 10.5. >>> >>> >>> /MB >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > >
