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I agree. As owner of some older Macs and trying to run a Java app written in Java 6 was a serious pain to get newer version of Java on a slightly older OS (10.4

I agree. As owner of some older Macs and trying to run a Java app written in Java 6 was a serious pain to get newer version of Java on a slightly older OS (10.4) Hopefully Oracle will pick up the ball with an easy installer for the Mac so we can install newer JRE's on most versions of OS X.

biafra 16y ago
Oracle does not care about Java on the Mac. I think Apple should care. They will loose customers (including me) when there is no decent Java on the Mac. Server side Java won't be a problem. But all the good Java IDEs (Eclipse, Netbeans and Intellij) are written in Java and need a decent Windowing System. X11 on the Mac is not that. The App Store announcement makes it clear that its only a question of time when Apple will close the MacOS-platform the same way they did with iOS. This makes me really sad. I suspect I will have to switch to Linux then.