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Apple updates Java developers on Mac OS X 10.6
THE CAPPUCCINO COMPANY Apple has updated Java developers with information on the features and fixes they should expect when building applications for Mac OS X with Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3 and Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 8.
The Da Vinci Code it ain't, but it should be required reading for anyone that wants to stay within Apple's App Store guidelines and not produce something that gets banned.
The Java for Mac OS updates should, according to Apple, remove compatibility problems while improving security and reliability. But perhaps most significant is the line that says, "Developers should not rely on the Apple-supplied Java runtime being present in future versions of Mac OS X."
Whether this has anything to do with some falling-out with Java's owners we don't know, but Steve Jobs doesn't burn bridges for no reason. Whatever the reasoning behind it, the message is clear, Apple's Java runtime will not be present in Mac OS X 10.7.
Perhaps it is too soon to forget about Java on Mac OS X, as the firm added, "The Java runtime shipping in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, will continue to be supported and maintained through the standard support cycles of those products."
Whether or not Oracle will take over future development and support of the Java runtime for Mac OS X is anyone's guess, at the moment. µ
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I use glare, because it isn't shine. There is a distinctive difference between glare and shine. Glare is an unwanted annoyance. After Mr. Jobs pisses off every industry: phones, computers, programmers…. He will be right back to where his company was 10 years ago before the IPod. Apple is nothing more than a company living on a good MP3 player. Don’t forget that.
So, Jobs doesn't want Larry to attack him like Google? Hmmm. No Apple-flavored Java-bombs?
So what happens next? Are there any physicists that read the Inq. that could explain what could happen if the huge, bloated egos of Jobs and Ellison directly collided with one another?
Would our entire dimension cease to exist? Or, could they both just turn into children, like in 2001 A Space Odyssey (oh wait a minute, they already are acting like children...never mind).
"While trying to attract the cool and stylish crowd, they have about abandoned us nerds" - totally agree, but as a "nerd" you'll have no problem installing Flash or Java or using sudo.
About removing Flash, nobody can claim to understand Jobs on this one. Except those "cool" fanbois, of course.
By chance I use a mac because somebody gave it to me (I'd never spend that much on design :-). I'm using it for browsing & web development. Boots up pretty fast, Eclipse 3.6 runs well, Flash in Firefox/Chrome runs acceptable (w/o hardware acceleration of course), Office 2011 is decent enough; takes up less room on my desk, the display is very good indeed and their flat keyboard is comfortable for coding. Those are the things I appreciate about it.
One more thing, I had to keep the osx because in win7 was running way too hot...
Take this with a bit of salt - this doesn't mean Java is dead. Oracle is not abandoning it, and what's even more important - Eclipse user base is huge. And surprisingly enough, there are many Eclipse or Aptana developers using the white boxes.
A related note says: "This means that the Apple-produced runtime will not be maintained at the same level" - very well; that also means somebody else will do it a lot better than apple. Which shouldn't be difficult...
IMHO, Java will be around for many years; same as Flash.
In my opinion Apple has taken some bad steps lately. While trying to attract the "cool" and stylish crowd, they have about abandoned us nerds.
Apple has denied any sudo uses from non jailbroken iOS devices and has been slimming their OS quite badly (having only the most recent software does also bring some good things). I did try to understand Jobs with removing some features like Flash from their devices. But this? C'mon
And so Lord Jobs proclaimed from on high:
Thy shalt have no Java on my holiest of platforms
Thy shalt have no Flash on my holiest of platforms
Thy shalt have no Browser other than Safari on my holiest of platforms
and the masses thanked Lord Jobs from saving them from the ravages of evil browsers and impure coding languages...