I see a lot of programmers expressing some strong opinions about what
Apple should and shouldn't be doing. Frustration aside, the "ideal"
of what we want is to have the latest version of the JVM on the Mac.
I, personally, don't care how it gets there.
Perhaps the alternative is to use this forum as a means of getting
support and guidance from the Apple Java developers for SoyLatte. I
presume that they can't discuss their own efforts due to NDA but they
*do* have the most experience in building/porting/maintaining a JVM
for Apple. I don't see how their support of a community endeavour
would hurt Apple's business model. Perhaps if we get far enough with
SoyLatte, Apple will be willing to release the reigns. Ideally, they
would go so far as to adopt the project under their Apple open source
project work and guide it's quality.
All in all, I think the community taking on the responsibility of the
JVM is the right approach. Sun has open-sourced Java so, why do we
continue to expect Apple to maintain a proprietary effort on it?
I'm not all that familiar with Cocoa development but I'm willing to
see if there's anything I can do to help. Why? 'Cause I'm a
programmer. This is the stuff that I like to do.
Cheers,
Jeremy
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