Thought you guys would be interested to read this "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. 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."
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/Java/JavaSnowLeopardUpdate3LeopardUpdate8RN/NewandNoteworthy/NewandNoteworthy.html Essentially, Apple now thinks it is big enough and important enough to just stop supporting their JRE. This is the same JRE that Apple alone maintains (poorly) and refuses to release source for aside from the components that came from Sun (it's basically sun java with minor modifications and closed source Apple-specific classes). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20101021/e7f60293/attachment.html>
