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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. Re:Ob Homerism by NiceGeek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Excuse me? Redundant? Last I looked no one had made this joke - I know it wasn't the funniest joke out there but mod me fairly at least.

  2. Re:Java scares the crap out of people! by zulux · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (as I sit here typing this on my iMac 20")

    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.

    By forcing programmers to use Objective-C - Apple can ensure that those apps are hard to port to any other platform.

    That said, the 10.4 API is pretty feature complete, so by not too much harm is done by freezing the Java to OS X API right now.

    (reposting... got mod bombed, but I have karma to burn)

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