What are you on about? These are two completely ludicrous statements! [Statement #1: Java isn't important enough for Apple to make anything more than a half-hearted effort, Statement #2: Mac platform market isn't big enough to justify Sun/Oracle picking up the tab for maintaining java on it].
Apple hasn't publically spoken about java-on-OSX anywhere, except to move away from the embrace-and-extend stuff they tried a long time ago with carbon and QT for java. I don't see MFC for java either, but I don't think anyone is publically saying that this means sun is going to abandon the windows version of java anytime soon. The current version of java, 1.6.0, is VERY well supported on macs, and is at the very latest version. If apple didn't give a crap, that wouldn't be true. Furthermore, back in the Mac OS days, sun had to write a JVM for the motorola 68k *and* the PPC architecture (for Mac OS 8.1+), both quite complicated, as well as try to port all the various java system libraries to the Mac OS model. That's about 100x more effort compared to what it would take to officially support OpenJDK/OracleJDK on Mac OS X: It's intel chips, with a posix backend. Just like linux. In fact, the OpenJDK builds *ALREADY* work on macs, so primarily this would mean supporting a swing/javaFX/awt-on-cocoa library, probably with boatloads of community support, given that unlike back then java is now open, and there many factors more developers using java on macs now than back then. Hence my claim: That's a completely ludicrous statement cris. Back it up. Other than that flub, excellent history lesson! On May 7, 1:53 pm, Chris Adamson <[email protected]> wrote: > There may be other reasons that aren't publicly-known -- I've heard > many rumors over the years of licensing spats -- but what I'm left to > conclude is that the Mac platform isn't big enough to justify Sun (now > Oracle, of course) picking up the tab for maintaining Java on it, and > Java isn't important enough to the Mac's end-users for Apple to make > anything more than a half-hearted effort to keep up to speed. -- 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.
