BTW. interesting blog entry on this from Matt Drance at Apple Outsider: http://www.appleoutsider.com/2010/10/22/java/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Major points of interest include the fact that Apple had a bunch of people working hard on Java over the years, and that the bulk of that effort was spent on AWT/Swing, which is a really big job and a really hard problem in the end. That, and javax.sound, are what Soy Latte foundered on after all, and clearly they'd be the stumbling block for a community-developed Mac JVM. Last graf is a killer. Matt is an indie iOS developer and trainer (he now teaches the Prags courses along with Daniel Steinberg) who was an Apple iPhone Evangelist for a number of years. Interestingly, I met Matt when he was an ADC engineer supporting Java on the Mac; he got assigned to help me figure out an obscure hang with QuickTime for Java's capture settings dialog. --Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
