Support Forums: Message List - So What If Apple Deprecates their JDK? http://www.theserverside.com Most recent forum messages en Jive Forums Silver 5.5.30 (www.jivesoftware.com) Sat, 18 May 2013 07:14:16 -0400 I *have* to believe that there was a conversation with Oracle... http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61146 There are lots and lots of Java developers out there.  I'd say that in the enterprise backend, I wouldn't be surprised if there's more Java than anything else (except mainframe...).  And the trend is that these developers have been moving to...]]> Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:51:30 -0400 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:51:30 -0400 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:51:30 -0400 Oct 26, 2010 Ray Wee 1 Excellent analysis by Chris Adamson http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61146 While much has been written about this, here's an excellent analysis of some of the deeper issues involved, and what may be done about them, by Chris Adamson: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:17:08 -0400 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:17:08 -0400 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:17:08 -0400 Oct 26, 2010 Ulf Dittmer 0 why speculate on rumours http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61146 ...]]> Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:54:16 -0400 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:54:16 -0400 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:54:16 -0400 Oct 25, 2010 Frank Bolander 0 why speculate on rumours http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61146 Has Apple released any official statement on this ?

If so can someone point me to it. I searched a lot and couldnt find anything.  

 

]]> Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:01:23 -0400 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:01:23 -0400 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:01:23 -0400 Oct 25, 2010 shawn spencer 1 So What If Apple Deprecates their JDK? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61146 And I thought Steve and Larry were close.  To me it is up to Oracle, in the end, to somehow acquire Apple's work and publish a Mac JDK at the same time Windows and Linux get published. Apple had spotty support when they were weak and are spotty...]]> Mon, 25 Oct 2010 06:48:09 -0400 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 06:48:09 -0400 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 06:48:09 -0400 Oct 25, 2010 Andrew Clifford 0 An action plan needed? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61146 If a stable, non-Quartz JDK port would exist that also keeps up-to-date with the latest Java versions, it would not be the end of the world for Java developers on the Mac. But on the other hand, since the IDE is something we use all the time, it would...]]> Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:19:55 -0400 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:19:55 -0400 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:19:55 -0400 Oct 24, 2010 Marko Asplund 0 X11 on OS X http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61146 I didn't mean to imply that there's anything wrong with Apple's X11 implementation - it works fine, runs Motif, etc. When used for OpenJDK's AWT/Swing graphics, though, it looks like X11 - very different from the Quartz graphics that people expect on...]]> Sat, 23 Oct 2010 07:58:18 -0400 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 07:58:18 -0400 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 07:58:18 -0400 Oct 23, 2010 Ulf Dittmer 0 So What If Apple Deprecates their JDK? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61146 ...]]> Sat, 23 Oct 2010 07:05:34 -0400 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 07:05:34 -0400 Sat, 23 Oct 2010 07:05:34 -0400 Oct 23, 2010 zart colwin 0 5 years is a long time http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61146 ... and being stuck with an outdated and unsupported java 6 jdk in the meantime is not a viable option ...

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So no worries here.

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