


Maintained through the standard support cycles of those products.Īnd the most recent relevant press release is ( I put the important points in BOLD ) The Java runtime shipping in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard,Īnd Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, will continue to be supported and Maintained at the same level, and may be removed from future versions This means that the Apple-produced runtime will not be Java that is ported by Apple, and that ships with Mac OS X, isĭeprecated. Having someone with a more vested interest in the technology on all the platforms is a good thing!Īs of the release of Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3, the version of Arguably this will be a good thing, as the Apple JDK usually lags 6 months plus behind the official Sun/Oracle one. It isn't installed by default, but after the fact just like on every other platform other than Solaris. What has happened is Apple has quit mangling their own JDK into the OS and delegating responsibility to Oracle to supply a JDK for OSX going forward. For JDK 7 it will be available from Oracle, maybe even through the App Store if we are lucky! What it means for right now, is nothing has changed, except that the JDK 6 and on is now a separate download via Software Update.
