The project now has the backing of three of the biggest names in
Java developer community can rest assured that the leading edge JavaĮnvironment will continue to be available on Mac OS X in the future.Ĭombined with last month’s announcement of IBM joining the OpenJDK, “The availability of Java on Mac OS X playsĪ key role in the cross-platform promise of the Java platform. Growing OpenJDK community,” said Hasan Rizvi, Oracle’s senior vice “We are excited to welcome Apple as a significant contributor in the OpenJDK will make Apple’s Java technology available to open sourceĭevelopers so they can access and contribute to the effort. Networking stack and the foundation for a new graphical client. Apple willĬontribute most of the key components, tools and technology requiredįor a Java SE 7 implementation on Mac OS X, including a 32-bit andĦ4-bit HotSpot-based Java virtual machine, class libraries, a REDWOOD SHORES and CUPERTINO, California-November 12, 2010-Oracle andĪpple® today announced the OpenJDK project for Mac OS® X. Maintained through the standard support cycles of those products.Īnd the most recent relevant press release is ( I put the important points in BOLD )
The Java runtime shipping in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard,Īnd Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, will continue to be supported and Maintained at the same level, and may be removed from future versions This means that the Apple-produced runtime will not be Java that is ported by Apple, and that ships with Mac OS X, isĭeprecated.
JAVA FOR MAC OS X LION UPDATE
Having someone with a more vested interest in the technology on all the platforms is a good thing!Īs of the release of Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3, the version of Arguably this will be a good thing, as the Apple JDK usually lags 6 months plus behind the official Sun/Oracle one. It isn't installed by default, but after the fact just like on every other platform other than Solaris.
What has happened is Apple has quit mangling their own JDK into the OS and delegating responsibility to Oracle to supply a JDK for OSX going forward. For JDK 7 it will be available from Oracle, maybe even through the App Store if we are lucky!
JAVA FOR MAC OS X LION SOFTWARE
What it means for right now, is nothing has changed, except that the JDK 6 and on is now a separate download via Software Update.
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