But then, as OS X took hold and Apple was able to convince developers to target their non-portable/proprietary environment, Apple's fundamental control-freak tendency took over and they put less and less energy into Java." "Apple was the same: in the early days, they were insistent on doing the port themselves," he continued. "IBM supplies Java for IBM's platforms, HP for HP's, even Azul systems does the JVM for their systems… he platform owners wanted to do the ports themselves so that they could put a lot of energy into it, and because they knew the platforms better than anyone else." James Gosling, the father of the Java programming language, a former Sun Fellow who left his position at Oracle in April, refuted Jobs' claim on his " One a New Road" blog: "It simply isn't true that 'Sun (now Oracle) supplies Java for all other platforms," he wrote. "They have their own release schedules, which are almost always different than ours, so the Java we ship is always a version behind. "Sun (now Oracle) supplies Java for all other platforms," Jobs wrote. Jobs gave his company's reason for dumping Java on the Mac in an e-mail response to Java developer Scott Fraser, CTO of Portico Systems, that Fraser posted on Flickr. "Deprecating" the custom-ported Java packages for the Mac leaves them in place, but without support, and with a strong recommendation for developers to avoid it. The Java runtime shipping in Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) will continue to be supported and maintained through the standard support cycles of those products, the note read. Developers should not rely on the Apple-supplied Java runtime being present in future versions of Mac OS X." While Apple CEO Steve Jobs was wowing the crowd last week, unveiling the latest incarnation of the Mac OS X (Lion) and the new MacBook Air at a press event, his company was quietly issuing release notes stating that, as of the release of Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3, "the Java runtime ported by Apple and that ships with Mac OS X is deprecated. News Analysts Weigh In on Apple's Decision To Deprecate Java in Mac OS
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