Apple Oracle OpenJDK Announcement

[Greg Lewis]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:22:06PM -0800, Mike Swingler wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2010, at 10:22 PM, Greg Lewis wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 01:35:31PM -0500, Denis Lussier wrote:
> > 
> >> Seems like great news.  I'm interested to hear from folks like Landon
> >> & Greg how they think this alters the path forward for OpenJDK 6 & 7
> >> on present and older versions of OSX.
> > 
> > I don't know the answer to that yet.  The first I heard of it was the
> > announcement.  Just based on the announcement Oracle is going to pull in
> > changes from Apple, so it's not clear to me how the current MacOS X port
> > within the BSD port fits in there, if at all.  That would be disappointing
> > if it doesn't result in broader BSD support, but that is unclear at the
> > moment.
> 
> Our work on the private Mac OS X JDK7 port so far has always been
> a sub-tree of the public BSD port. Our intention is to bring the
> entirety of the BSD changes along with the Mac OS X port. The build
> doesn't get very far without the BSD changesets. :-)

Mike, that is great to hear :).  I'm interested in helping out if that
is feasible, although as you mention in a later email there is much to
work out between Apple and Oracle with regards to process and so forth
first.

> As for the targeted version of Mac OS X-specific changes, you can expect
> that we will use Mac OS X 10.6 as a baseline. The Mac OS X 10.6 SDK
> allows us to use blocks (which _greatly_ simplifies interacting with
> AppKit on the main thread), and has many key pieces of functionality
> exposed as full Cocoa API (as opposed to using private SPI or Carbon
> functions).

By blocks you mean Grand Central Dispatch, yes?

> >> --Denis Lussier
> >>  Founder & Chief Architect
> >>  http://openscg.org
> >> 
> >> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Eric Richardson <ekrichardson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi All,
> >>> 
> >>> I hope this is appropriate to send this along.
> >>> 
> >>> http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/11/12openjdk.html
> >>> 
> >>> Eric
> >>> 
> >>> 
> > 
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