Transitioning from Apple extensions

[Mario Torre]

The Apple LAF is being worked on, and I think is pretty good already.

I don't know if the system properties that were used to alter the LAF
will be supported, I guess this would be ok, but someone more close to
the Mac development is more qualified than me to answer that question.

2012/6/1 Scott Palmer <swpalmer at gmail.com>:
> On 2012-06-01, at 4:07 AM, Mario Torre <neugens.limasoftware at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> It is in cases where it is the JREs job to provide a reasonable user experience. Such as supporting the native platform's look and feel.  Let's face it, that's all the Apple "extensions" we're doing.
>
> Scott
>



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