With Apple delaying Leopard and speculation rife that JDK 6.0 will
only be released at the same time as Leopard, what do you think the
odds are that some frustrated Mac Java developers will start
porting the Open JDK code (once the class libraries are fully open
sourced) to OS X.
On at least a philosophical level, it seems like a very plausible
scenario, especially if Apple totally drops the ball on maintaining
its own version of Java. The only proprietary goodies that would
be hard to replicate would be the Quartz/Aqua integrated Swing
libraries.
I say bring it on! Even if the ported JDK only really really works
for command-line/server-side code, it would be a most welcome
development.
In my opinion, it would be better if these weren't separate efforts.
It would be really wonderful if the Apple version and the Open JDK
could be merged. Apple would benefit from outside help, and the
community would benefit from a better Java implementation on Mac OS X.
--Lieven
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