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Re: Java on Leopard report



Right. I'm not going to respond to the 1.6 thread, but can the rest of you read this response from an Apple engineer.

Java is not a dropped platform they are doing no work on. It is simply that they focused on a performant 1.5 rather than 1.6. If we could just drop the dramatics.

My Java apps are FLYING on Leopard, as far as I am concerned an excellent upgrade for a Java developer, and I'm looking forward to 1.6 now they don't have anything else to worry about ;-)



On 27 Oct 2007, at 17:01, Mike Swingler wrote:

On Oct 27, 2007, at 6:59 AM, Michael Fortin wrote:

Now that I've had 24 hours to play with java on leopard, I have a few observations.

- I turned on spaces and have intellij idea and eclipse on one, safari in another. If I cmd-tab from safari to intillij it doesn't switch spaces. Same thing happens with Aqua Data Studio. It works with eclipse.

Sounds like a bug with how AWT-based windows are marked from Space's point of view.


- Correct me if I'm wrong but swing in Tiger java used cocoa widgets and it doesn't in Leopard. There is a definite subtle difference to all the widgets in intellij.

The Aqua Look and Feel in Tiger did not use Cocoa per-se, but it shared a lot of code with the Cocoa implementation. For Leopard, the Aqua Look and Feel has been a bit re-factored, and it's native components completely replaced, to enable support for resolution independence.


The select box options don't have drop shadows for one thing. The sliders are a difference color blue.

Please file a bug about this to both bugreporter.apple.com and IntelliJ. We have made some changes to the popup code, however regular JComboBoxes still do have shadows on their popup windows.


Could this be the explanation for the 1.6 delay?


Sorry, no comment.

- Is there a way to use the shelf in java with Leopard without JNI?

Can you explain more what you mean by this?

- I really don't like the flat gray of the panels but the sharper corners in tab panes are a plus. Performance seems subtly better.

Thank you!

Cheers,
Mike Swingler
Java Frameworks Engineer
Apple Inc.
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References: 
 >Re: Java on Leopard report (From: Greg Guerin <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Java on Leopard report (From: Michael Fortin <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Java on Leopard report (From: Mike Swingler <email@hidden>)



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