[Tfug] Re: Microsoft reveals 'critical' security flaws

[Anthony Hess]

Even better - Apple actually does work on the Sun JVM and submits it back to
Sun.  The Mac JRE is pretty much completely done by Apple (rather, the Mac
specific parts are).  You don't get your JRE from Sun, but from Apple.

Currently they are behind at 1.3.1, but thatıs because they decided to
change the way that Java interfaces with the system.  Previously, it
interfaced with the Carbon APIs.  This is being changed so that it
interfaces with the Cocoa stuff for the GUI.  Not being a Java developer, I
don't completely understand what they mean, but Apple is definitely behind
Java.  Their stated goal is to be right with Sun on releases of Java.

James Gosling is a Mac OS X user, btw,

Tony

On 12/15/02 1:38 AM, "Anthony Steckman" <humbl@elitemail.org> wrote:

> Nice.
> 
> I decided to research it.
> 
> According to http://java.sun.com/getjava/others.html, OSX ships with
> Java 2 and Classic used it's own VM (called the MRJ -- Mac OS Runtime
> for Java). 
> 
> When I wrote my reply, of course, I was imagining Dell and HP and the
> other popular PC manufacturers sitting around together with MS
> executives, all of them plotting together to frustrate the growth of
> third party operating systems and programming languages.
> 
> In my excitement, I forgot all about the good people at Apple.
> 
> I also forgot the few, mostly discount, retailers who are selling PC's
> with Linux or Lindows pre-installed. I would guess at least a percentage
> of these systems come with the Sun JRE.