At 11:24 +0100 22/10/10, Egon Willighagen wrote: >On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Rzepa, Henry <h.rz...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote: >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/21/apple_threatens_to_kill_java_on_the_mac/ >> >> ""As of the release of Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3, the version of Java >> that is ported by Apple, and that ships with Mac OS X, is deprecated," > >I think it's not that bad... there is OpenJDK (by Oracle), and seems >to be available for OS/X: > >http://lists.apple.com/archives/Java-dev/2010/Oct/msg00248.html
That expresses future aspirations, rather than testable reality. There is nothing for OS X at http://openjdk.java.net/ The argument is that implementing Java for OS X would almost certainly require Apple to release source code for the graphical implementations. If that does not happen, then the actual experience on the Mac may become a poor one. Jobs appears to want to take OS X towards iOS, which is away from using a mouse and towards using gestures. I think that adapting Java for that sort of environment is going to require major work. -- Professor Henry S Rzepa. +44 (020) 7594 5774 (Voice); http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ & /rzepa/blog Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK. (Voracious anti-spam filter in operation for received email. If expected reply not received, please phone/fax). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
