Support for Apple Extensions

[Stephen Winnall]

As long as the standard APIs are Windows- and Linux-biased, as they have been since the beginning of Java, the Apple extensions are going to remain necessary.

Any Mac Java client that wants to have a chance of market acceptance will use them extensively.

Steve

On 05.07.2013, at 09:45, 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