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?"

Ob Homerism

[NiceGeek]

Mmmmmmmmm...frozen Cocoa Java

Re:Java scares the crap out of people!

[Quarters]

Java scares companies like Microsoft and Apple because it has the potential to make their closed platforms irrelevant. If the promise of Java did take off - people would be free to choose their platform without having to worry about buying all new apps or learning new look-alike apps.

Did you just get off the boat from 1996 or something?

Re:Oh Well.

[Anonymous Coward]

No,

signed

Everyone

Jonathan Schwartz ramblings

[joshstaiger]

I'm going to go out on a limb an guess that this means that Apple isn't going to take Jonathan Schwartz up on his offer that they adopt Solaris 10 for the underpinnings of the Mac OS and adopt NetBeans as their development environment... [sun.com]

Shocking, I know.

Oye vey...

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