Linking to JavaRuntimeSupport framework

David Kocher dkocher at sudo.ch
Thu Jul 21 05:30:53 PDT 2011


On 26.01.2011, at 21:33, Mike Swingler wrote:

> On Jan 26, 2011, at 11:39 AM, David Kocher wrote:
> 
>> On 26.01.2011, at 17:17, Mike Swingler wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for the clarification. I was mixing things up. JavaRuntimeSupport.framework is indeed part of the public JavaVM.framework. Can you assure that this framework will be in the default install of subsequent major OS X releases (10.7 and onward)?
> 
> I cannot comment specifically about Mac OS X 10.7, however it is our intention for the additions made to the /System/Library/Frameworks folder by Java updates to be standard API on Mac OS X.
> 
>> The Java deprecation notice never made it clear to me, what parts will be optional installs. I would assume that only  /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/* falls into this category then.
> 
> This is not a bad assumption to make. Hopefully I can discuss more at a later time.
> 
> My best,
> Mike Swingler
> Java Engineering
> Apple Inc.

I just tried the latest snapshot build with changeset [1] included but I still get the optional installation alert triggered despite having no Java element in the Info.plist dictionary. otool -L shows no dependency on any of the JavaVM embedded frameworks. Any clue?


-
David


[1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/macosx-port/macosx-port/jdk/rev/1b591a1e6881


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