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Oracle, Apple make up over Java announce OpenJDK for OSX
By siliconindia
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Monday, 15 November 2010, 19:46 IST
Bangalore: After years running Java for Mac OS X as an in-house project, Apple is handing control to the Oracle. In this hand off; Apple will transfer its Java work to OpenJDK, the open-source project under which Java is developed. Apple will maintain its current version of Java Standard Edition 6 for Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, and 10.7, aka Lion, but Oracle will release Java SE 7 for the Mac, the companies said.
"We are excited to welcome Apple as a significant contributor in the growing OpenJDK community," said Hasan Rizvi, Oracle's Senior Vice President of Development. "The availability of Java on Mac OS X plays a key role in the cross-platform promise of the Java platform. The Java developer community can rest assured that the leading edge Java environment will continue to be available on Mac OS X in the future. Combined with last month's announcement of IBM joining the OpenJDK, the project now has the backing of three of the biggest names in software."
Oracle and Apple announced the OpenJDK project for Mac OS X. Apple will contribute most of the key components, tools and technology required for a Java SE 7 implementation on Mac OS X, including a 32-bit and 64-bit HotSpot-based Java virtual machine, class libraries, a networking stack and the foundation for a new graphical client. OpenJDK will make Apple's Java technology available to open source developers so they can access and contribute to the effort.
Apple also confirmed that Java SE 6 will continue to be available from Apple for Mac OS X Snow Leopard and the upcoming release of Mac OS X Lion. Java SE 7 and future versions of Java for Mac OS X will be available from Oracle.
