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Apple Deprecates Their JVM

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the zomg-i'm-posting-a-java-story dept.

Mortimer.CA writes "In some recent release notes Apple has deprecated their JVM: 'As of the release of Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3, the version of Java that is ported by Apple, and that ships with Mac OS X, is deprecated.' In the past Sun (now Oracle) has always let Apple do this: 'Apple Computer supplies their own version of Java. Use the Software Update feature (available on the Apple menu) to check that you have the most up-to-date version of Java for your Mac.' I wonder how much heads-up Oracle was given for this change, and if the Java team has any code ready to go, or whether they'll have to ramp up porting for Mac OS 10.7 (aka 'Lion')."

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  1. Re:Mac as ultimate dev machine no more? by ceejayoz · · Score: 5, Funny

    This dev is more concerned about Minecraft not working...

  2. Re:I thought JAVA was supposed to be crossplatform by characterZer0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe he is here for all the non-technical political articles.

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  3. Re:I thought JAVA was supposed to be crossplatform by Mister+Whirly · · Score: 4, Funny

    Magic? No, computers run on magical smoke. I know because I have seen the magical smoke come out of computers before, and after that they do not work.

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  4. Re:I thought JAVA was supposed to be crossplatform by schmiddy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Couldn't Sun just write their JVM in Java, so that it could run on any platform without porting?

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