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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?"

3 of 154 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What does this mean for WebObjects? by zsmooth · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Let's hope so.

  2. Sun refusing to license/port Java to Apple+Intel? by NZheretic · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Is Apple having problems with Sun over Apple's transition to the Intel platform?

    It might be that Apple on Intel is a little to close to the Sun on Opteron workstation market for Sun's liking.

  3. NeoOffice/J? by mindbooger · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Ouch. I wonder what that means for an OOo 2.0 (and beyond) version of NeoOffice/J?
    http://www.neooffice.org/