I've actually heard rumors that the Java effort for Mac will move to
Sun. So I understand the lacks. But it is only rumors.
Best Regards
Geoffrey
On 30 Apr 2008, at 09:40, Jeremy E. Denton wrote:
So, my MacBook is coming up on it's second birthday and it happily
runs Leopard. In my 20-year history of using Apple products, I
finally have a consistent backup of my personal data thanks to Time
Machine. It's brilliant!
My laptop is a 2.0GHz Core Duo. I find myself a tad dismayed that
because I'm an early adopter of the new MacBook line, I am unable to
run a development platform that is 17 months old. My MacBook would
have been about 6 months old had Java 6 been released on the Mac
along with other major platforms in December 2006. Additionally,
beta versions of Java 6 were out before I even purchased my MacBook.
I have to admit that I am a bit tired of being subject to Apple's
whims. As a developer, I cannot conceive of any significant
technical challenges within Java between 32 and 64 bit processors.
Java 6 works with both processors for other platforms.
If it's not a technical challenge, then it appears to be a change of
Apple's commitment to Java being a first-class development
environment of Mac OS X. This seems to be enforced by dismissive
comments from Apple's iCEO about Java on the iPhone.
My uncertainty and doubt leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I fear that
Apple's choice of silence will continue to hurt it's developers.
This smacks of behaviours more typical of Apple's competitors. While
this is speculation, without any comment from Apple, all I can do is
wonder.
Unfortunately, the best thing that this public release has provided
is the convenience to discuss the current Java situation on this
forum without fear of breaking an NDA of our developer accounts.
Are we going to wait for Apple to delay Java 7 for some
indeterminate period after 10.6 is released? Only to be eventually
released on a subset of the most recent hardware that is available?
I am not so much commenting on Apple's business decisions. Apple is
a business and it has to make decisions according to what will
promote it's continued financial success. Java can be an independent
project.
Ideally, I would love to see Apple release it's port of Java 6 as a
part of the Java open source initiative. If Apple has decided to
focus on other endeavours, then it should let go and allow the
larger community to aide in the development of Java as it has with
projects like Bonjour and Webkit.
Setting aside Apple's involvement, SoyLatte has made some
significant progress as an independent project but the last
contribution was made about 2 months ago. Is there continued
interest in working on SoyLatte?
What I am hoping is to continue to encourage a course of action that
secures Java's future on Mac OS X at a time where there's a risk of
"close enough"-style apathy stalling what momentum has been built.
This "release" of Java 6 shouldn't be motivation to upgrade a
computer less than 2 years old.
What do you think?
Sincerely,
A Concerned Developer.
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