It makes the point that Desktop Java is currently problematic and mainly used to support server-side Java development. “ shoes.drop() ” is a good in-depth analysis by Chris Adamson.Now people are free to speculate and some blame Apple, others blame Oracle. They should have consulted before Apple dropped this kind of a bomb. The main problem is that neither Apple nor Oracle have really communicated what all of this means.Maybe Apple thought about the difficulties of implementing the new look of Mac OS X Lion in Swing and considered it too expensive. Mimicking Apple’s GUI will always be a moving target, anyway. While the Swing Aqua look and feel was nice, Nimbus (which appeared in Java SE 6u10) is good enough for me. There is a petition for Apple to hand over its custom code to the open source community. There is an open source Java for the Mac, but it runs under X-Windows, thus Swing is not well integrated (but: Eclipse and SWT run on it, too).Oracle is very profit-driven and server-oriented, so I’m not sure if they see a business case for Java on Mac OS X.I don’t know of any software-related degree where Java or the JVM is not needed at some point. But they are still an influential group whose support Apple won’t want to lose.

Those developers mainly work on server-side applications, so their work is not directly relevant for Apple. Having Java on the Mac is important, because many developers need it.In the past, it has been slow to support the newest version, so this change could be for the better. Apple obviously and understandably does not want to handle Java, any more.They have their own release schedules, which are almost always different than ours, so the Java we ship is always a version behind. Sun (now Oracle) supplies Java for all other platforms. Then either Apple didn’t think this through or it used it as a negotiation tactic.Īpple is currently warning developers that Java might not be bundled with Mac OS X Lion.

This is how it should have been done all along, before announcing the deprecation. Commercial builds of JDK 12.0.2 from Oracle under a non-open-source license, for a wider range of platforms, can be found at. Update : “ Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X”. OpenJDK is a production-ready open-source build of the Java Development Kit, version 12.0.2, an implementation of the Java SE 12.0.2 Platform under the GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception.

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