Re: OpenJDK OS X port?

Subject: Re: OpenJDK OS X port?

From: Adam Ohren <email@hidden>

Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:19:31 -0400

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Yea, it's not so much about an urgency to get Java 6 to market I think. At least IMHO, it's more about keeping up with the rest of the world's (ie - Sun's) Java "momentum."

Sun's been making a hard Java press lately by consolidating an aggressive, uniform release cycle for Windows, Linux, and Solaris; providing an up-to-date browser plug-in along with it; rolling two new Enterprise IDEs; investing big in their Sun Java Systems; rolling with OpenJDK; GlassFish; yada yada yada...

Apple on the other hand has shelved Cocoa for Java, left non-WebKit browsers with Java 1.3, lagged Java 5 behind current, and stays mum about Java 6.0 after announcing a 4-month delay in their own OS. Although, Java is supposed to be a "first-class citizen" on the platform....???

I'm not trying to bash Apple, far from it. Just criticizing their Java strategy a little. This being Apple's java-dev list, I do think it's an appropriate place to to do it, from a developer's point of view.

And I guess that's what it boils down to; Apple's Java strategy. The strategy for Windows, Linux, and Solaris is pretty clear and aggressive. On the other hand, it's hard to tell if Apple has a strategy or what it is.

A bit disappointing, that's all.

Adam Ohren

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Henry Story wrote:

I agree with you mostly, except that I don't think we want Java 6 for industrial production use. We would like to start developing the products now that will later be used for production use. All we need for that is for apple to release its development java 6 a little more often than every 6 months. This could help that team get feedback from the community too.

At the moment it feels like one needs to have windows or linux installed to do this correctly.

Henry

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