>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

>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.