Apple Freezes Java Support for Cocoa

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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Intel Java Performance issues?

[linuxtelephony]

Could this direction be to deal with the performance issues of Java on little endian systems like x86? Seems I recall reading that Java performance is generally better (or much better) on big endian systems such as Sparc (and, PPC970/G5). Given the migration to Intel, could it be the little endian performance issue (penalty?) is prompting them to make a preemptive move away from some of the Java support, so the Intel based Macs don't look like they perform badly for Java apps that are integrated tightly with Cocoa?

If memory serves, the performance penalty was related to numeric processing, including GUI interfaces.

I'm just speculating out loud, but that's the first thing I thought when I ready about this yesterday.