Support for Apple Extensions (original) (raw)

Robert Krüger krueger at lesspain.de
Fri Jul 5 01:30:19 PDT 2013

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:

On 05/07/2013 03:33, Will Herrmann wrote:

Will future versions of Java support the Apple Extensions (e.g. com.apple.eawt) that were created while Apple handled Java for Mac OS X? The Stack Overflow topic at http://stackoverflow.com/a/15054600/531762 suggests that they are included in OpenJDK Java 7, but I'm not sure if this is going to continue for Java 8 and beyond. I don't know whether these APIs are supported or not (they came into OpenJDK via the port and I'm not sure that there was any discussion about them). However I am curious to understand how commonly used they and whether the usages are cases where standard APIs should be considered. -Alan

Ouch! I did not know this was unclear. We use those in our app with OpenJDK8 and so far I have not found anything that did not work as it did with Apple's JDK6, although the app is not used in production with 8 yet and we might have missed something. Definitely one thing you'd better announce, if the plan turns out to be to discontinue those as I believe a lot of people use them on the Mac.

Robert

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