On 7/07/12 12:45am, Michael Gentry wrote:
I'm OK with going to Java 1.6.
As for the Mac OS concerns, Java 1.6 is available pre-OS X 10.7, plus
developers need to be cognizant of their deployment environments when
choosing frameworks, so I don't see that as a huge issue.
Yes, for 95% of developers, who mostly now work in the cloud, they control the deployment
environment absolutely. For those of us who write bits of software for people to download
and install, you have to cope with the inevitable "the previous version worked, why
doesn't this one?".
I am still waiting to see how the OSX Java environment works out, since that is
really the only problem area. I don't see any clear indications as to whether Java
7 will be backported to OSX 10.6. Or what the update mechanism will be for users.
Or what the Swing L&F will be. Did Apple donate their Java UI extensions back
to the openjdk project?
Ari
--
-------------------------->
Aristedes Maniatis
GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A
