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Java Deprecation

October 22, 2010 03:05 by: Karl Johnson   0 Comments

Categories: News , Products

   Apple quietly announced that it will not longer be updating or developing new versions of Java for Mac OS X in their developer section today. Java will still be included in the OS for now, but may be removed from future versions of the operation system. In the early days of Mac OS X, java was a big part of the OS as Apple was trying to bring in more applications. Now that most applications run natively on the Xcode development platform, Apple does not see to need to dedicate man hours to keeping it up-to-date.  Java has had lot of security issues lately and Apple may also not want to deal with those issues anymore.
   What will happen to Java on the Mac? Either Oracle will develop a Mac version of the Java runtime or someone else on the open source community will create a version. Either way it will not have the Mac look and fell like it does today, but Java should still run.  

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