Transitioning from Apple extensions

[Mario Torre]

2012/6/1 Chris Harshman <harshman+javadev at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Artem Ananiev <artem.ananiev at oracle.com>wrote:
>
>> We at Oracle do our best to support all Java apps on Mac OS X that were
>> written for Apple's JDK6 and relied on Apple's extensions (system
>> properties, command line args, com.apple classes, etc.), but we don't
>> provide any official support for anything except public APIs.
>>
>
> Is there any sort of guide (official or otherwise) mapping Apple's
> extensions to public API replacement/equivalent/work-arounds? (I.e., is
> there a way current developers can hedge their bets, coding to the 'rich'
> Apple JDK6 experience but also degrading as gracefully as possible for
> OpenJDK 7+?)

That's the bet that people lose when use proprietary extensions.

What are the specific "features" you're missing? Perhaps the most
popular ones will be reintroduced, but I doubt that Apple specific
functionality will end in the main JDK, that's not the place for it.

Cheers,
Mario
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