Empirical evidence suggests it will always be advantageous to use Linux over Windows, and Windows over Mac, if official reference JDK's are your preference. Keep in mind though, that the Sun/Oracle binary is probably going away, since they withdrew the "Operating System Distributor License" (I.e. Sun/Oracle's own reference implementation is no longer to be found on various Linux distros). It's entirely unfounded conjecture on my part, but I suspect that Oracle will eventually push a proprietary optimized server JDK as alternative to OpenJDK.
On Monday, May 28, 2012 12:11:34 PM UTC+2, raks wrote: > > Hi All, > > as a developer of Java apps on Macs, I'm quite concerned about whats > happening after Apple said they would not maintain the Mac version. > > The version of Java was already behind the main one anyway which was > annoying (but since corporates move at such a glacial pace, it wasn't the > end of the world) but with the recent Java exploit targeting Mac users I am > wondering if using a Mac is viable. > > If I start a new project tomorrow and I want to use JDK7, am I > disadvantaged by using a Mac? > > I know OpenJDK exists, but rightly or wrongly, I have always preferred the > Sun/Oracle one. > > Rakesh > On Monday, May 28, 2012 12:11:34 PM UTC+2, raks wrote: > > Hi All, > > as a developer of Java apps on Macs, I'm quite concerned about whats > happening after Apple said they would not maintain the Mac version. > > The version of Java was already behind the main one anyway which was > annoying (but since corporates move at such a glacial pace, it wasn't the > end of the world) but with the recent Java exploit targeting Mac users I am > wondering if using a Mac is viable. > > If I start a new project tomorrow and I want to use JDK7, am I > disadvantaged by using a Mac? > > I know OpenJDK exists, but rightly or wrongly, I have always preferred the > Sun/Oracle one. > > Rakesh > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/oVQ9lds0eXkJ. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@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.
