Mac App Store Refusal because of QTKit API's

[Donald Smith]

Please let us know what you hear back with Apple on this given the 
information below we hope they will see this as an oversight.

  - Don

On 30/09/2015 12:28 PM, Phil Race wrote:
> Yes, these look like ICU functions which so far as I know FX only
> references from its *own* internal copy of webkit which in turn has a 
> copy of ICU.
>
> What is very odd is that Apple is essentially then objecting to 
> referencing
> functions that are internal to your app. ie referenced by your app and 
> also
> fulfilled by your app, whereas I assume the app store checking should be
> against deprecated Apple APIs that you reference in your app and that
> are fulfilled by OSX (or iOS).
>
> So something seems wrong here.
>
> -phil.
>
> On 09/30/2015 09:19 AM, Scott Selvia wrote:
>> Chris,
>>
>> I'll update iTunes connect with that information and ask them to clarify
>>
>> Thank you for the additional information, Danno explained they are 
>> used in the WebKit  dylib
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Sep 30, 2015, at 12:08 PM, Chris Bensen <chris.bensen at oracle.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Scott,
>>>
>>> Those APIs are for the text system ICU. I believe the App Store team 
>>> may be in error. Perhaps they accidentally copied the wrong 
>>> forbidden APIs when writing the message.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Sep 29, 2015, at 3:15 AM, Scott Selvia <sselvia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I’m using JDK 8 update 60 and I just received an email from Apple 
>>>> saying that my application is using deprecated QTKit API’s.  I’ve 
>>>> reviewed Danno Ferrin’s JavaOne session from last year; it says 
>>>> that Update 40’s libjfxmedia_qtkit.dylib or Update 20’s 
>>>> libjfxmedia.dylib should be removed and are by the packager.  I 
>>>> have this line in my packager output from the packager, as you can 
>>>> see the libfxmedia.dylib is in my app and pkg.  Is this an 
>>>> oversight by the packager and the libfxmedia.dylib should also be 
>>>> removed from my packaged application?
>>>>
>>>> The original message from ITunes Connect said that these API’s are 
>>>> referenced, when I questioned Apple as to what code was referencing 
>>>> these they said it was the JavaFX Media library.
>>>>
>>>> ITunes Connect Responce:
>>>>
>>>> 2.31
>>>>
>>>> Your app incorrectly implements sandboxing, or it contains one or 
>>>> more entitlements with invalid values. Please review the included 
>>>> entitlements and sandboxing documentation and resolve this issues 
>>>> before resubmitting a new binary.
>>>>
>>>> ubrk_getRuleStatus
>>>> ubrk_setUText
>>>> ucnv_getCanonicalName
>>>> ucnv_reset
>>>> ucol_strcollIter
>>>>
>>>> Dear developer,
>>>>
>>>> We have discovered one or more issues with your recent delivery for 
>>>> "Examine-IT Pro". To process your delivery, the following issues 
>>>> must be corrected:
>>>>
>>>> Deprecated API Usage - Apple no longer accepts submissions of apps 
>>>> that use QuickTime or QTKit APIs.
>>>>
>>>> Once these issues have been corrected, you can then redeliver the 
>>>> corrected binary.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> The App Store team
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Running [codesign, -s, 3rd Party Mac Developer Application: 
>>>> THUNDERCLOUD RESOURCES, LLC (82Z9WT6K6N), --prefix, 
>>>> com.thundercloudresources.examineit., -vvvv, --entitlements, 
>>>> /var/folders/wd/0dvkql1x0yxc9911tp1tz57c0000gq/T/fxbundler8869305413596109692/macosx/Examine-IT 
>>>> Pro.entitlements, 
>>>> /var/folders/wd/0dvkql1x0yxc9911tp1tz57c0000gq/T/fxbundler8869305413596109692/images/image-2516465556090179709/Examine-IT 
>>>> Pro.app/Contents/PlugIns/Java.runtime/Contents/Home/jre/lib/libjfxmedia.dylib] 
>>>>
>>>> /var/folders/wd/0dvkql1x0yxc9911tp1tz57c0000gq/T/fxbundler8869305413596109692/images/image-2516465556090179709/Examine-IT 
>>>> Pro.app/Contents/PlugIns/Java.runtime/Contents/Home/jre/lib/libjfxmedia.dylib: 
>>>> signed Mach-O thin (x86_64) 
>>>> [com.thundercloudresources.examineit.libjfxmedia]
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