On Nov 14, 2012, at 1:59 AM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote:
> On 13/11/2012 22:50, Brent Christian wrote:
>> At present, the JDK port for OS X gets its value for os.name from a JRS
>> function exported by the Apple Java Runtime Support framework.
>>
>> Historically this has either been "Mac OS X", or "Mac OS X Server", but
>> there have been reports that this could change at any time, e.g.
>> to just "OS X". This would break any app that relies on this property
>> to detect the Mac platform using something like:
>>
>> System.getProperty("os.name").startsWith("Mac").
>>
>> To ensure compatibility going forward, the os.name System property on Mac
>> should be hard-coded to the value that is expected, "Mac OS X". (FWIW, as of
>> 10.7 Mac OS X Server is no longer a separate edition of the OS).
>>
>> Webrev is here:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bchristi/7178922/webrev.0/
>>
>> Note: the setUnknownOSAndVersion() function is unused following my change,
>> so I went ahead and removed it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Brent
> This might be a question for the MacOSX folks but is it safe to continue to
> depend on JavaRuntimeSupport period? I'm just wondering if we really need to
> use it to determine the OS version and locale?
JavaRuntimeSupport.framework was explicitly created to make API for OpenJDK and
3rd party JVMs to do everything that the Apple Java SE 6 did using private SPI.
To prove that it worked, we re-implemented Java SE 6 on top of it. It's purpose
is to expose a stable API for functionality that is generally inappropriate for
Cocoa applications, but is necessary for the Java to cooperate with the OS X
graphical environment.
We currently have no plans to expand JavaRuntimeSupport, and no plans to
deprecate it.
Regards,
Mike Swingler
Apple Inc.
