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Apple has since dropped Java, but back in the day, it was one of the primary supported development environments for Mac OS X. There was a full Cocoa bridge, an

by ken 15y ago

Apple has since dropped Java, but back in the day, it was one of the primary supported development environments for Mac OS X. There was a full Cocoa bridge, and you could write native-looking applications in Java. At least one of the built-in apps on early versions of Mac OS X (10.0/10.1?) was actually Java/Cocoa -- I want to say TextEdit, but I'm not certain. Soon after, of course, everything got ported to Objective-C.

batista 15y ago
>Apple has since dropped Java, but back in the day, it was one of the primary supported development environments for Mac OS X. There was a full Cocoa bridge, and you could write native-looking applications in Java. Only up until Tiger. And you still had the "uncanny value" effect, despite the native-ish look and feel to Swing. Plus, even SUN and then Oracle abandoned Java on the desktop.