I answered this in another thread, but briefly: * Apple was in very bad shape in 1997 (most people expected it to be acquired or go out of business), so Sun wasn't all that interested in putting resources into a doomed platform. Their JDK 1.0 was about as half-assed a release as you'll ever see. They were pretty happy to let Apple deal with it and, for a number of years, put a few Sun engineers on Apple's campus to help with the MRJ.
* Most JVMs at that time were provided as a developer tool with an IDE (Metrowerks CodeWarrior, Symantic Café, Roaster), or as an applet- runner within a browser (Netscape, MSIE). Compatibility and performance were all over the map. Apple's stated goal was to provide a single high-quality VM that browsers and developers could just standardize on, and count on being present. On Oct 22, 10:52 pm, Miroslav Pokorny <[email protected]> wrote: > What was the original motivation for Apple taking ownership of the producing > and releasing JDK for the Mac ? Was this somehow related to their jealous > guardianship of maintaining the Gui libs (AWT, Swing L&F etc)? -- 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.
