Relevant bug fixes should be able to go both ways between the two related ports, where possible.Īll of this is likely to take time, however. Buried at the bottom of the page is a link to a page where the open bugs for the Mac port are being publicly tracked (as they’re ported across from Apple’s internal system).ĭevelopment is focused around JDK 7 – the basic idea is to take a fork of the community-maintained BSD port, and add Apple’s code to it, to produce a Mac-specific port. Over the last few days, there have been some developments – for example this wiki page, detailing the progress of the Mac port, has appeared. I, for one, can’t wait to see what Nimbus look-and-feel will look like under native Aqua. It’s also good news for Mac users – as it means that, for example, the native Aqua look-and-feel will continue to be supported – so Java desktop apps on Mac will look lovely. This is good news for Java developers who want to develop on Mac. Over time, the Mac platform will become a completely first-class citizen in the Java world.Oracle will take over the stewardship of the Mac port of Java.Apple will contribute the code that they used for their private Mac Java builds as GPL code to OpenJDK. Hopefully, by now, everyone knows that Apple joined the OpenJDK project last year.
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