Just you wait until VMWare gets ported to Java and then gets ported to Dalvik, so you could run it on Android. That way you won't need a computer at all and will be free to boot up OS X (any version you like) and run that Java 1.4 app you really needed to access. Oh dear god...
Alexey ________________________________ From: B Smith-Mannschott <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, October 22, 2010 5:37:59 AM Subject: Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Apple has just deprecated Java on the Mac!!! On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 23:18, Phil <[email protected]> wrote: > I suppose that's the fallback option - I use VMWare, so I could just > run Linux in unity mode and still have access to an up-to-date version > of Java and the tools that go with it. Given that Eclipse Helios on > Mac STILL has issues with CTRL-Space not working about half the time > this might even prove to be a bonus! It strikes me as perverse in the extreme to virtualize an entire operating system, just to run -- within it -- a virtual machine to execute byte code that's supposed to be "write once, run anywhere". ;-) That said, I expect that Oracle will pick up the ball on this. // Ben -- 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. -- 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.
