Support for Apple Extensions

[Robert Krüger]

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 05/07/2013 03:33, Will Herrmann wrote:
>>
>> Will future versions of Java support the Apple Extensions (e.g.
>> com.apple.eawt) that were created while Apple handled Java for Mac OS X? The
>> Stack Overflow topic at http://stackoverflow.com/a/15054600/531762 suggests
>> that they are included in OpenJDK Java 7, but I'm not sure if this is going
>> to continue for Java 8 and beyond.
>>
> I don't know whether these APIs are supported or not (they came into OpenJDK
> via the port and I'm not sure that there was any discussion about them).
>
> However I am curious to understand how commonly used they and whether the
> usages are cases where standard APIs should be considered.
>
> -Alan

Ouch! I did not know this was unclear. We use those in our app with
OpenJDK8 and so far I have not found anything that did not work as it
did with Apple's JDK6, although the app is not used in production with
8 yet and we might have missed something. Definitely one thing you'd
better announce, if the plan turns out to be to discontinue those as I
believe a lot of people use them on the Mac.

Robert