Thought you guys would be interested to read this
"This means that the Apple-produced runtime will not be maintained at the same
level, and may be removed from future versions of Mac OS X. The Java runtime
shipping in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, will
continue to be supported and maintained through the standard support cycles of
those products."
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/Java/JavaSnowLeopardUpdate3LeopardUpdate8RN/NewandNoteworthy/NewandNoteworthy.html
Essentially, Apple now thinks it is big enough and important enough to just
stop supporting their JRE. This is the same JRE that Apple alone maintains
(poorly) and refuses to release source for aside from the components that came
from Sun (it's basically sun java with minor modifications and closed source
Apple-specific classes).
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