Apple deprecates Java

#1

Post by tomeast » Thu, Oct 21, 2010, 7:38 AM UTC

Apple deprecates Java
developer.apple.com

Re: Apple deprecates Java

#2

Post by apike » Thu, Oct 21, 2010, 7:55 AM UTC

People who follow Apple's developer communication have seen this coming for years. It'll be interesting to see if Oracle steps up to fill the gap or not.

Re: Apple deprecates Java

#3

Post by jdub » Thu, Oct 21, 2010, 7:55 AM UTC

Note that they've only deprecated their own Java runtime.

Re: Apple deprecates Java

#4

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 21, 2010, 7:55 AM UTC

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Re: Apple deprecates Java

#5

Post by shimonamit » Thu, Oct 21, 2010, 7:57 AM UTC

Sounds significant, but how important is Apple/MacOS to Java?

Re: Apple deprecates Java

#6

Post by lapusta » Thu, Oct 21, 2010, 7:58 AM UTC

apike wrote: post #2

People who follow Apple's developer communication have seen this coming for years. It'll be interesting to see if Oracle steps up to fill the gap or not.

There is already a port of OpenJDK: http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/static/soylatte/

Though it's not developed by Oracle employees afaik.

Re: Apple deprecates Java

#7

Post by martey » Thu, Oct 21, 2010, 7:59 AM UTC

jdub wrote: post #3

Note that they've only deprecated their own Java runtime .

I have not done Java development on OS X, but doesn't this mean that OS X 10.7 would not ship with a Java runtime? Wouldn't this have a negative effect on the ease of packaging and distributing Java programs on the platform?

Re: Apple deprecates Java

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Post by derefr » Thu, Oct 21, 2010, 7:59 AM UTC

Does this mean that if you want to distribute a Java app bundle, you must package the JRE into it as a framework?

Re: Apple deprecates Java

#9

Post by nickpp » Thu, Oct 21, 2010, 8:00 AM UTC

Wait, I thought Oracle (Java's current owner) is Apple's friend, because of the lawsuit against Google's Android.

Head spinning.

Re: Apple deprecates Java

#10

Post by shimonamit » Thu, Oct 21, 2010, 8:01 AM UTC

Speculative, but could this be an early preventative measure to keep JRuby from challenging their up and coming MacRuby platform?