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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