I think regardless of who provides the JVM on the Mac, even if we have to build and bundle it ourselves, the real concern here is the possibility of it being "banned" from a platform as it seems to be initially indicated in the App Store Review Guidelines mentioned at the top of this thread.
Let's just hope that just as there was a change of heart on third party tools for IOS, that we will see Apple do the same and allow JVM based apps. Yes we didn't have a store before, but why wouldn't developers look forward to deploying Java apps on such a store? -Dario On Oct 21, 3:44 pm, mond ray mond <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 that Oracle should / probably will do it. Microsoft don't do it, > nor for that matter does Linus et al so let's not cry too much about > Apple giving up on it. > > In many ways its the best thing as Oracle are likely to maintain the > platform in a more timely fashion, if for no other reason than to stay > in with cool folks like me ;-) > > Sent from my MacBook Pro > > On Oct 21, 9:31 pm, "fabrizio\.giudi...@tidalwave\.it" > > > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm usually an optimist, but I don't see any upside for Oracle in > > > doing this. Unlike Apple, Oracle won't make any money if people buy > > > Macs because Oracle provides a free Java JDK. On the other hand, if > > > Java were really to die on Mac OS, developers and companies do not > > > stop developing in Java, they stop using Apple hardware. So no > > > negative effect on Oracle, and they've saved themselves the cost of > > > creating a Mac OS Java port. > > > > > I'm not sure at all about what Oracle will do. But I see that Oracle does > > support its products on Mac OS X (JDeveloper, NetBeans, Glassfish, just to > > mention some). This means that they have at least a minimum business about > > Mac OS X. Furthermore, they are exercising their stewardship in a very > > strong fashion, and dropping Mac OS X support Java would lose the full > > portability property. I say that there's no sure thing, but there are some > > rational reasons for Oracle to support Mac OS X. > > > > -- > > Fabrizio Giudici, Ph.D. - Java Architect, Project Manager > > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > > weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/blog > > [email protected] - mobile: +39 348.150.6941 -- 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.
