Apple deprecates Java

Re:Apple deprecates Java by apike on Thursday October 21, 2010 @03:55AM (#1814646)

People who follow Apple's developer communication have seen this coming for years. It'll be interesting to see if Oracle steps up to fill the gap or not.

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Re:Apple deprecates Java by lapusta on Thursday October 21, 2010 @03:58AM (#1814655)

There is already a port of OpenJDK: http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/static/soylatte/

Though it's not developed by Oracle employees afaik.

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Re:Apple deprecates Java by astrange on Thursday October 21, 2010 @01:58PM (#1816660)

SoyLatte is nothing more than a build of the OpenJDK BSD Port. You can build that yourself.

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Re:Apple deprecates Java by landonfuller on Thursday October 21, 2010 @02:38PM (#1816853)

Not entirely the case. Soylatte is what became the OpenJDK BSD Mac Port. It was granted re-licensing and was merged upstream to OpenJDK.

What this means:

- The Java 6 Java Research License (JRL) binaries are based on Sun's Java 6 JRL releases, which mean they closely mirror the shipping official Java 6. They are also out-of-date and no longer supported. You can only build them using the JRL sources available from Soylatte, and redistribution of code and binaries is limited by the JRL.

- The OpenJDK 6/7 binaries are built from the OpenJDK repository, which is where all the Soylatte and BSD patchset changes were merged. All current development occurs as part of the OpenJDK BSD-Port project, and the code and binaries are fully redistributable.

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Re:Apple deprecates Java by astrange on Thursday October 21, 2010 @06:20PM (#1817695)

Well, I should have said "at this point". Surely building bsd-port is more interesting than building your own Java 6.

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