With people like Google, Atlassian and Alfresco using a lot of OS X machines 
for Java devs, either people will bring OpenJDK up to speed or Oracle will 
release a JVM. Not counting Lotus Notes (IBM) who is a Eclipse RCP app since 
version 7.

> It only requires apple branded hardware.  So we can always dump OS X for 
> linux...
> 
> Ramsey
> 
> On Oct 25, 2010, at 4:16 PM, Simon wrote:
> 
>> another interesting (related) question:
>> 
>> IIRC, the WO license requires you to develop on mac os. that's gonna
>> be pretty difficult if there's no suitable JDK... ?
>> 
>> On 25 October 2010 19:49, Andrew Lindesay <a...@lindesay.co.nz> wrote:
>>> Hello;
>>> 
>>> Excuse my ignorance, but I'm trying to get a handle on the impact of using 
>>> OpenJDK for WebObjects and other java dev going forward if there's no 
>>> "official" JDK for MacOS-X.  I understand that OpenJDK on MacOS-X uses X11 
>>> for GUI material (swing/AWT) which would seem tolerable, but are there 
>>> other substantive differences with OpenJDK with respect to the "official" 
>>> JDK for non GUI applications?
>>> 
>>> cheers.
>>> 
>>> ___
>>> Andrew Lindesay
>>> www.silvereye.co.nz
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