Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Is Apple Going To Discontinue Java Support For Mac OS?

Yesterday Apple released Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3. The release notes for this update state:

"As of the release of Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3, the version of Java that is ported by Apple, and that ships with Mac OS X, is deprecated.

This means that the Apple-produced runtime will not be maintained at the same level, and may be removed from future versions of Mac OS X."

What does this mean for the future of Java on Mac OS? At the moment there is no official alternative to the Apple-produced JVM on Mac OS.


The link to the release notes document was found on osnews.
The release notes document can be found here.

Update:
There is an online petition of people who would like to see Apple to contribute the source code of its JDK to the OpenJDK project. The petition can be found here.

Update #2
Apple and Oracle announced the OpenJDK-Project for Mac OS. Apple will donate most of it's code to the OpenJDK-Project. Read more about this here.

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