Support for Apple Extensions (original) (raw)

Paul Taylor paul_t100 at fastmail.fm
Fri Jul 5 01:53:49 PDT 2013

On 05/07/2013 09:45, Stephen Winnall wrote:

As long as the standard APIs are Windows- and Linux-biased, as they have been since the beginning of Java, the Apple extensions are going to remain necessary.

Any Mac Java client that wants to have a chance of market acceptance will use them extensively. Steve On 05.07.2013, at 09:45, 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 This was discussed this in some detail last Autumn, and we were assured that support would be continued, and on a postive note from my own experience Ive found everything I need does all work on the 1.7.0_40_ea-b291 release. Alan I would suggest you discuss this with the oracle developers who were looking at this back then. At the time I also requested it should be properly documented but the response on that was pretty divided.

1Paul

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