[ajug-members] Apple Deprecates Apple JVM

[Josh Berry]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Joey Gibson <joey at joeygibson.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Burr Sutter <burrsutter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> So we have to count on Oracle to provide a JVM?
>>
>> Windows 7 is working well for me :-)
>>
>> And Linux is still free.
>
> Don't we have to count on Oracle to provide a JVM for Windows? I had been
> hoping for a long time that Apple would just let Sun handle the OSX JDK,
> because Apple did a piss-poor job of keeping up with patches. I am hoping
> that Oracle will actually take it over. It would be nice to hear something
> official from them.

I think the more "damaging" part of the news here, is actually that by
deprecating Java, they are also saying it will not be allowed as a
base technology for anything in their app store.

So, yes, we have the same basic problem in the other operating systems
as far as getting the jdk/jvm. We do not, however, have to deal with a
steward for the OS saying that the technology we have chosen is
"deprecated" and will not be sanctioned.