See the other thread. Yes, SWT (and hence eclipse) runs on OpenJDK on macs, pure vanilla. Absolutely no visible differences, X11 not needed and won't start. Everything remains the same - font rendering, apple- specific placement of menu bars, and even the apple-specific chrome that most SWT elements end up looking like (because SWT really does make the OS draw the widgets).
On Oct 26, 7:12 pm, Craig Kelley <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
