Re: OpenJDK, Java and Mac

2010-10-25 Thread Janine Ohmer
On Oct 25, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Chuck Hill wrote: > > On Oct 25, 2010, at 12:59 PM, David LeBer wrote: > >> >> On 2010-10-25, at 3:53 PM, Stefan Klein wrote: >> >>> Hi List, >>> >>> there is an online petition: "Contribute the Apple JDK source to OpenJDK" >>> (http://www.petitionspot.com/petiti

Re: OpenJDK, Java and Mac

2010-10-25 Thread Chuck Hill
On Oct 25, 2010, at 1:20 PM, David Avendasora wrote: > > I would, but I don't think you can use me as a representative of the dev > community as a whole. Shudder. I'd hope not! :-P -- Chuck Hill Senior Consultant / VP Development Practical WebObjects - for developers who want

Re: OpenJDK, Java and Mac

2010-10-25 Thread Simon
>> IIRC, the WO license requires you to develop on mac os. > > No, it just requires you to develop on an Apple-branded computer. It doesn't > say anything about what OS it must be running. oh ok. hey - i just found a reason for those crappy white apple stickers that come with just about everythi

Re: OpenJDK, Java and Mac

2010-10-25 Thread Pascal Robert
With people like Google, Atlassian and Alfresco using a lot of OS X machines for Java devs, either people will bring OpenJDK up to speed or Oracle will release a JVM. Not counting Lotus Notes (IBM) who is a Eclipse RCP app since version 7. > It only requires apple branded hardware. So we can a

Re: OpenJDK, Java and Mac

2010-10-25 Thread Ramsey Gurley
It only requires apple branded hardware. So we can always dump OS X for linux... Ramsey On Oct 25, 2010, at 4:16 PM, Simon wrote: another interesting (related) question: IIRC, the WO license requires you to develop on mac os. that's gonna be pretty difficult if there's no suitable JDK... ?

Re: OpenJDK, Java and Mac

2010-10-25 Thread David Avendasora
On Oct 25, 2010, at 4:16 PM, Simon wrote: > another interesting (related) question: > > IIRC, the WO license requires you to develop on mac os. No, it just requires you to develop on an Apple-branded computer. It doesn't say anything about what OS it must be running. But, if you're not going

Re: OpenJDK, Java and Mac

2010-10-25 Thread Simon
another interesting (related) question: IIRC, the WO license requires you to develop on mac os. that's gonna be pretty difficult if there's no suitable JDK... ? On 25 October 2010 19:49, Andrew Lindesay wrote: > Hello; > > Excuse my ignorance, but I'm trying to get a handle on the impact of usin

Re: OpenJDK, Java and Mac

2010-10-25 Thread Stefan Klein
Am 25.10.10 21:59, schrieb David LeBer: On 2010-10-25, at 3:53 PM, Stefan Klein wrote: Hi List, there is an online petition: "Contribute the Apple JDK source to OpenJDK" (http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/macjdk). I don't think Apple will take any care, but a try won't harm. Just be care

Re: OpenJDK, Java and Mac

2010-10-25 Thread Chuck Hill
On Oct 25, 2010, at 12:59 PM, David LeBer wrote: > > On 2010-10-25, at 3:53 PM, Stefan Klein wrote: > >> Hi List, >> >> there is an online petition: "Contribute the Apple JDK source to OpenJDK" >> (http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/macjdk). >> I don't think Apple will take any care, but a

Re: OpenJDK, Java and Mac

2010-10-25 Thread David LeBer
On 2010-10-25, at 3:53 PM, Stefan Klein wrote: > Hi List, > > there is an online petition: "Contribute the Apple JDK source to OpenJDK" > (http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/macjdk). > I don't think Apple will take any care, but a try won't harm. Just be careful, if you sign in with twitter

Re: OpenJDK, Java and Mac

2010-10-25 Thread Stefan Klein
Hi List, there is an online petition: "Contribute the Apple JDK source to OpenJDK" (http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/macjdk). I don't think Apple will take any care, but a try won't harm. Stefan Am 25.10.10 20:49, schrieb Andrew Lindesay: Hello; Excuse my ignorance, but I'm trying to

Re: OpenJDK, Java and Mac

2010-10-25 Thread Pascal Robert
I made a quick test with OpenJDK 1.7 yesterday night, and the WO app was working fine. Will try to build Wonder with it this week. But I do saw problems with OpenJDK 1.6 for running the Atlassian products on our Linux box, I had to use Sun's JVM for that case. > Hello; > > Excuse my ignorance,

OpenJDK, Java and Mac

2010-10-25 Thread Andrew Lindesay
Hello; Excuse my ignorance, but I'm trying to get a handle on the impact of using OpenJDK for WebObjects and other java dev going forward if there's no "official" JDK for MacOS-X. I understand that OpenJDK on MacOS-X uses X11 for GUI material (swing/AWT) which would seem tolerable, but are the