> > > I wonder if perhaps it would be in Apple's best financial interest to > open source their JDK implementation so that we hobbyists could > contribute, providing the necessary man hours needed to get the latest > JDK running under OSX? If the Java market is truly unimportant to > them, but they want to not lose it entirely, this might seem like a > reasonable way to go. > > I think Darwin is the closest that Apple has come to creating an open source project. As I recall, Apple's implementation of Java includes a lot of hooks into the underlying operating system. This is has it's pluses and minuses. While it means that the Swing and AWT implementations are closely tied to the Apple's graphics toolkit, it also means that changes to the graphics toolkit also mean changes to Swing/AWT. Since the OS is considered one of their crown jewels, they're not that likely to open source something that's closely tied to the OS. And as mentioned previously, Apple has a policy of not disclosing what they're working on, it would be extremely difficult to work on OS changes without breaking an open source version of Java.
For the time-being, I think that Soylatte is the closest we'll come to having an open source version of Java running on a Mac. In general though, I'd like to see implementations of Java on other platforms with native peers to not-only the graphics core, but also the File System, Speech, and Media APIs so that I could take advantage of the native APIs on each platform, but not have to write platform specific calls to make it work. Regards, Mark Fortner --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
