Michael Kimsal wrote: > > As to why Sun ceded JDK ports to Apple, I'm guessing the reason is > simply one of resources. The Java platform has always had interfaces > to the lower level graphics bits of Windows and UNIX since its > inception, so adding new features and evolving the language wouldn't > seem to be a major effort for Linux. > > However, an OSX port is a different story, mostly because as you said > above the Cocoa/ObjectiveC/Aqua based environment is a fairly radical > paradigm shift from either Linux/X11 or Win32/GDI. > > -Chris > > > This just illustrates that Sun hasn't historically been all that > concerned about Java. If > this is their flagship technology, the one on which the entire future > of the > company rests (they changed their ticker symbol to JAVA for goodness' > sake!) > they should exercise more control over the experience of that > technology both for > developers and for end users. If the cutting edge stuff can't run on > a significant > portion of machines that typically run cutting edge stuff (early > adopters) they'll > continue to lose market- and mindshare. Really? I think it shows that Sun hasn't historically been all that concerned about the Mac.
It is still a niche market for clients and a very, very small market for servers and requires a great deal of platform-specific code to do the right things GUI-wise. Apple has been extremely slow, but since Java 5 the results have been decent when they finally arrive. Given the incremental benefit vs. incremental cost, it seems like a no-brainer for Sun to leave this to Apple -- much as they leave AIX to IBM, for instance (which I'd personally be more excited to see change given the delays in JVM releases, frequent disparate behavior with respect to Sun JVMs, lack of JVM source code, etc, one has to deal with currently on AIX). -- Jess Holle --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
