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Apple Freezes Java Support for Cocoa

Posted by timothy on from the like-a-moolatte dept.

Nice2Cats writes "A little message on Apple's Developer Connection tells us that Cocoa for Java will get no new features after 10.4. The full text is: 'Features added to Cocoa in Mac OS X versions later than 10.4 will not be added to the Cocoa-Java programming interface. Therefore, you should develop Cocoa applications using Objective-C to take advantage of existing and upcoming Cocoa features.' Is this bad for Java, or bad for Apple, or bad for both, or doesn't anybody give a damn anyway?"

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  1. Ob Homerism by NiceGeek · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mmmmmmmmm...frozen Cocoa Java

  2. Re:Java scares the crap out of people! by Quarters · · Score: 4, Funny
    Java scares companies like Microsoft and Apple because it has the potential to make their closed platforms irrelevant. If the promise of Java did take off - people would be free to choose their platform without having to worry about buying all new apps or learning new look-alike apps.

    Did you just get off the boat from 1996 or something?

  3. Re:Oh Well. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    No,

    signed

    Everyone

  4. Jonathan Schwartz ramblings by joshstaiger · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm going to go out on a limb an guess that this means that Apple isn't going to take Jonathan Schwartz up on his offer that they adopt Solaris 10 for the underpinnings of the Mac OS and adopt NetBeans as their development environment...

    Shocking, I know.

    Oye vey...

    --
    http://joshstaiger.org/