On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Rzepa, Henry <h.rz...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote: >>http://lists.apple.com/archives/Java-dev/2010/Oct/msg00248.html > > That expresses future aspirations, rather than testable reality. There is > nothing for > OS X at http://openjdk.java.net/
You can find instructions floating around on the web on how to build it... this is one hit: http://confluence.concord.org/display/CCTR/Build+OpenJDK+Java+1.7.0+on+Mac+OS+X+10.5 > The argument is that implementing Java for OS X would almost certainly > require Apple to release source code for the graphical implementations. If > that does not happen, then the actual experience on the Mac may become a > poor one. True. Just like we have seen with the Classpath libraries... Well, you only payed minimal money for OS/X, so what can you expect? ;) > Jobs appears to want to take OS X towards iOS, which is away from using a > mouse and towards using gestures. I think that adapting Java for that sort > of environment is going to require major work. Yeah, that is one good reason for Jobs to drop Java... of course, if he would have gone Open Source, he could have shared this burden... Egon -- Dr E.L. Willighagen Postdoctoral Research Associate University of Cambridge Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ LinkedIn: http://se.linkedin.com/in/egonw Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list Jmol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
