Mac App Store<\/a>,\u201d which looks like an effort to have one single technology and language to develop \u201cofficial\u201d applications for Mac. In fact, for all Apple platforms running OS X and iOS, developers should use X Code and Objective C. That\u2019s fine with me, as I enjoy developing small apps for my iPhone and iPad in my spare time, using these tools. But at eXo, many of our developers are using Java, often on Macs, to build our software.<\/p>\nWe\u2019re not talking about the same kind of applications. If, in the future, Java does not exist on Macs, it will not cause enterprise developers to abandon Java, but simply force them to move away from their Macs. Personally, I don\u2019t want that to happen. I switched to Mac in 2001, and I\u2019ve been a big fan of all Apple products ever since (most of my extended family are now also on Macs, and they couldn\u2019t care less about Java).<\/p>\n
As a Java developer, do I switch back to PC now? Unlikely. I am very confident (overconfident?) that Java will still be present on OS X. The difference is that Apple will simply stop caring about it — the same way that Microsoft doesn\u2019t care now. I cannot believe that Apple will stop\/block Java on their platform. So the future of Java in general, and now on Mac, is fully under the control of the Java community, driven by Oracle and OpenJDK. I am sure we will find many skilled \u201cMacAddicts\u201d to maintain and improve Java on OS X, to at least allow Java developers to run their favorite IDE and test their applications before deploying them on the servers — keeping the \u201cWrite Once, Run Anywhere\u201d a reality (almost…). The only \u201cbad\u201d part is the fact that \u201cJava Desktop\u201d will not borrow any of the cool features of Apple Mac OS X. Not a big deal, since Java Desktop has never been that successful anyway.<\/p>\n
So my advice to fellow Java developers is this: if you care, be vocal. Let\u2019s make sure Apple lets the community drive the future of Java on Mac, since the future of the Java platform is still very exciting for many of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hey Steve, keep the bean in the Apple! The news from last week that grabbed the attention of many Java developers was Apple\u2019s announcement of its intentions to deprecate Java in the latest OS X 10.6 update. One sentence stood out in particular, \u201cDevelopers should not rely on the Apple-supplied Java runtime being present in […]","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[699],"tags":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":37055},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}