Java 7 for Mac OSX

Richard Bair richard.bair at oracle.com
Tue Feb 21 14:43:00 PST 2012


On Feb 21, 2012, at 2:02 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hi Mike,
> 
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Mike Swingler wrote:
> 
>> When it comes time for you to test your app, you only test against the
>> version of Java you have, not future ones that don't exist yet.
> 
> Is it now the official position that Java is not future-compatible
> anymore? That "compile once, run everywhere" is a joke?

These two issues are orthogonal. And at Sun, you were never assured of future compatibility. Nothing to see here folks, same as its always been.

Richard


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