Frozen Java

By Scott McNulty

This could be bad news for all you OS X Java developers out there (I'm sure there must be at least 2 out there). According to a note posted on the Cocoa-Java Integration Guide, which by the way is a great summer read, new Cocoa features will not be available to Java in OS X versions after 10.4.

The text of the full announcement reads:

Important: Features added to Cocoa in Mac OS X versions later than 10.4 will not be added to the Cocoa-Java programming interface. Therefore, you should develop Cocoa applications using Objective-C to take advantage of existing and upcoming Cocoa features.

Apple wants developers to write in Objective-C, most likely, so that user interfaces will be consistent across the board and so that Apple can control the programming language a little more tightly.

This doesn't mean that the newest version of Java won't be supported under OS X, it just means that it will be a little harder to write Java apps on the Mac.

[via SlashDot]
 

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