Apple Deprecates Java

[Hussein Baghdadi]

http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/10/apple-deprecates-java
This is really bad news for Java folks on the Mac

[Andrew Monkhouse]

Looking at today's Java update from Apple, I think it is being very specific about which version of the OS they will continue to release new versions of Java for. So:

10.5 (Leopard) - still supported

10.6 r 3 (Snow Leopard (older release)) - deprecated

10.6 r 4 (Snow Leopard (current release)) - still supported

10.7 (Lion) - will be supported

So this only appears to be an issue for people who are running Snow Leopard that have not been applying updates.

[Hussein Baghdadi]

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/Java/JavaSnowLeopardUpdate3LeopardUpdate8RN/NewandNoteworthy/NewandNoteworthy.html

[Andrew Monkhouse]

[Jari Timonen]

This is not something to hope for.

[Hussein Baghdadi]

Very good readings:
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2010/10/25
http://blogs.tedneward.com/2010/10/25/Thoughts+On+An+AppleJava+Divorce.aspx

[Allan A Peak]

Not good news. I could still do my Java stuff under Linux or even (ugh) Windows on VMWare Fusion, but I'd rather stick with OSX.

[Jesper de Jong]

Good news!

Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X

Java SE 6 will continue to be available for OS X Snow Leopard and will also be available for OS X Lion, and Oracle and Apple will work on Java SE 7 for OS X together, based on the OpenJDK project.

[Hussein Baghdadi]

We are safe
Apple did the right thing.