Support for Apple Extensions

[Paul Taylor]

On 05/07/2013 09:45, Stephen Winnall wrote:
> 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.
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> Any Mac Java client that wants to have a chance of market acceptance will use them extensively.
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> Steve
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> On 05.07.2013, at 09:45, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> 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).
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>> However I am curious to understand how commonly used they and whether the usages are cases where standard APIs should be considered.
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>> -Alan
This was discussed this in some detail last Autumn, and we were assured 
that support would be continued, and on a postive note from my own 
experience Ive found everything I need  does all work on the 
1.7.0_40_ea-b291 release. Alan I would suggest you discuss this with the 
oracle developers who were looking at this back then. At the time I also 
requested it should be properly documented but the response on that was 
pretty divided.


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