[Source] JDK 6 support and public release ends NOV 2012

[Norbraten, Terry (CIV)]

Good point Justin.  In fact, until Apple turns over, or opens up its
JavaRuntimeSupport Framework over to the OpenJDK folks, Mac OS X won't be
able to run any Java-based graphics app that depends on interfacing with
OpenGL.

Although I can run JDK7 on my Mac, I can't run Xj3D (more specifically,
Aviatrix3D) until Apple gets its act together


On 9/20/12 9:21 PM, "Justin Couch" <justin at vlc.com.au> wrote:

>On 21.09.2012 07:48, Don Brutzman wrote:
>
>> thanks Terry.  sounds like we should start looking ahead at Xj3D
>> migration to Java 7.
>
>Our very long term policy has been to always support the version behind
>the latest. So, Java 6 is what we run on now. We wouldn't move to Java 7
>features until Java 8 is in production. Much of this policy is driven by
>OS/X support, that traditionally lags substantially behind the official
>Oracle (nee Sun) releases. We stayed on Java 5 for years after official
>support for it was ended, so I'm not in favour of this as being a good
>argument to move forward just yet.
>
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