On Oct 21, 12:57 pm, Mike Hopper <[email protected]> wrote: > I too really like the MacBook Pro hardware. I use my MBP for Java > server development and for Flex (Air, Flash Player) development via > Eclipse. Now I have to worry about the future of both Flash/Flex and > Java on the Mac.
Since Eclipse runs on SWT, can it run purely under OpenJDK -- or is Java2D also done by Apple? I have a Powerbook 12" that I wanted to bring to a Wicket presentation I did at an open source conference (my wife has stolen away my Macbook Pro 17), but was frustrated because OSX 10.5 can only run JDK5, and Netbeans 9.1 requires JDK6. I suppose this was a hint of things to come; OSX 10.6 won't run JDK7 and 10.7 won't run any of them, graphically speaking. I wonder if Apple has really put thought into this decision. Do they know how many enterprise developers use Eclipse on OSX? How many universities are using Java in computer science (and other) programs? If it was a 4-man team for this effort, then it seems like a very poor business decision to cut off these tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of Apple customers. Fortunately, my Dell Mini9 with it's wee 1.6Ghz Atom processor was able to run Netbeans 9.1, Hibernate, MySQL, OpenOffice and Glassfish so that I could do my presentation. All of that from a $300 computer. -Craig -- 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.
