Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Latest update on the Java on Mac situation?

2012-05-28 Thread Casper Bang
On Monday, May 28, 2012 12:39:12 PM UTC+2, fabrizio.giudici wrote: > > Now that OpenJDK is > more reliable (even though not perfect), a "fully open source Linux guy" > can work with OpenJDK. > + IcedTea for the web-tier integration parts. -- You received this message because you are subsc

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Latest update on the Java on Mac situation?

2012-05-28 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On Mon, 28 May 2012 12:31:27 +0200, Casper Bang wrote: 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 It was like that in

[The Java Posse] Re: Latest update on the Java on Mac situation?

2012-05-28 Thread Casper Bang
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

Re: [The Java Posse] Latest update on the Java on Mac situation?

2012-05-28 Thread ags
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Rakesh wrote: > If I start a new project tomorrow and I want to use JDK7, am I > disadvantaged by using a Mac? > Seems no: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk-7u4-downloads-1591156.html :-) -- You received this message because you are s

Re: [The Java Posse] Latest update on the Java on Mac situation?

2012-05-28 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On Mon, 28 May 2012 12:11:34 +0200, Rakesh wrote: I know OpenJDK exists, but rightly or wrongly, I have always preferred the Sun/Oracle one. On Mac OS X Lion there's both the Oracle JDK 7u4 and OpenJDK 7u4. Java 6 is still maintained for a while by Apple. -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Ar

[The Java Posse] Latest update on the Java on Mac situation?

2012-05-28 Thread Rakesh
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 th