HTTP/2 302 server: nginx date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:23:40 GMT content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 content-length: 0 x-archive-redirect-reason: found capture at 20090227123731 location: https://web.archive.org/web/20090227123731/https://today.java.net/rss/64.rss server-timing: captures_list;dur=0.527044, exclusion.robots;dur=0.036785, exclusion.robots.policy;dur=0.027213, esindex;dur=0.011872, cdx.remote;dur=88.771540, LoadShardBlock;dur=655.019527, PetaboxLoader3.datanode;dur=527.484316, PetaboxLoader3.resolve;dur=43.419356 x-app-server: wwwb-app227-dc8 x-ts: 302 x-tr: 770 server-timing: TR;dur=0,Tw;dur=0,Tc;dur=1 set-cookie: wb-p-SERVER=wwwb-app227; path=/ x-location: All x-as: 14061 x-rl: 0 x-na: 0 x-page-cache: MISS server-timing: MISS x-nid: DigitalOcean referrer-policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade permissions-policy: interest-cohort=() HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:23:41 GMT content-type: text/xml content-length: 13948 x-archive-orig-date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:37:30 GMT x-archive-orig-server: Apache x-archive-orig-vary: Host x-archive-orig-last-modified: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:52:54 GMT x-archive-orig-etag: "9dc85f-367c-49955106" x-archive-orig-accept-ranges: bytes x-archive-orig-content-length: 13948 x-archive-orig-x-cache: MISS from today.java.net x-archive-orig-connection: close cache-control: max-age=1800 x-archive-guessed-content-type: text/xml x-archive-guessed-charset: utf-8 memento-datetime: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:37:31 GMT link: ; rel="original", ; rel="timemap"; type="application/link-format", ; rel="timegate" content-security-policy: default-src 'self' 'unsafe-eval' 'unsafe-inline' data: blob: archive.org web.archive.org web-static.archive.org wayback-api.archive.org athena.archive.org analytics.archive.org pragma.archivelab.org wwwb-events.archive.org x-archive-src: 52_8_20090227122647_crawl100-c/52_8_20090227123652_crawl100.arc.gz server-timing: captures_list;dur=0.671446, exclusion.robots;dur=0.022870, exclusion.robots.policy;dur=0.011047, esindex;dur=0.014349, cdx.remote;dur=38.338516, LoadShardBlock;dur=128.060620, PetaboxLoader3.datanode;dur=81.098692, PetaboxLoader3.resolve;dur=90.617299, load_resource;dur=167.193884 x-app-server: wwwb-app227-dc8 x-ts: 200 x-tr: 360 server-timing: TR;dur=0,Tw;dur=0,Tc;dur=0 x-location: All x-as: 14061 x-rl: 0 x-na: 0 x-page-cache: MISS server-timing: MISS x-nid: DigitalOcean referrer-policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade permissions-policy: interest-cohort=() accept-ranges: bytes https://community.java.net/mac Items from java.net's Mac community homepage. https://support.apple.com/kb/HT3374 Apple has released a pair of Java updates, <a href="https://support.apple.com/kb/HT3374">Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 3</a> and <a href="https://support.apple.com/kb/HT3373">Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 8</a>. Both are described simply as "updat[ing\ the Java Web Start and Java Applet components to address security and compatibility issues." Both support all Intel- and PPC-based Macs, and require that the previous Java update already be installed. The updates are also available via <a href="https://www.apple.com/softwareupdate/">Software Update</a>. 2009-02-13 Feb 13, 2009 bucket/bu/64/d115bbda 35 https://images.apple.com/batteries/images/portable_swupdate03222004.gif https://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6761033 Kirill Grouchnikov's <a href="https://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=901">Swing Links of the Week for November 30</a> makes an interesting reference to <a href="https://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6761033">Bug 6761033</a> in Sun's Bug Database. "Use NPAPI for Mac OS X port of new Java Plug-In", indicated as "delivered" for 6u12(b01), refers to a new "prototype of the new Java Plug-In for Mac OS X" that uses Cocoa, making it compatible with Safari but not Firefox. The evaluation suggests Sun "collaborated with Apple to redo the Mac OS X port of the new Java Plug-In as an NPAPI and NPRuntime plugin", and now works with Safari 3.1 and nightly builds of Firefox. While it's listed as delivered for "6u12" -- update 10 and beyond have yet to appear on the Mac of course -- the bug reasserts that "We do not officially support the Mac platform so it is not feasible to write a positive test case for these changes." 2008-12-02 Dec 02, 2008 12 bucket/bu/64/f5cbdfad https://lausd.apple.com/groups/lausd/weblog/0281a/images/ca385.png https://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/17/47TC-developers-mac_1.html InfoWorld has posted an article on <a href="https://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/17/47TC-developers-mac_1.html">Why developers prefer Macs</a>, pointing out its popularity among Ruby, .NET, and Java developers. "Java development on the Mac is also very popular, in part because all the major Java development environments are written in Java. Therefore, Eclipse, IntelliJ, and NetBeans all run about the same on Windows, Mac, and Linux boxes." It singles out the popularity of mobile development as boosting the Mac's appeal: "Google's Android SDK and RIM's BlackBerry SDK both run in Java, a language that's usually well-supported on the Mac (though Java releases for Mac tend to lag behind those for Windows, Linux, and Solaris). " However, the article also notes competition from other flavors of Unix, and James Gosling's recently delcared preference for OpenSolaris over Mac OS X. 2008-11-19 Nov 19, 2008 bucket/bu/64/576ac408 12 https://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ObjCTutorial/Art/xcode_icon.jpg https://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/archive/2008/09/developing_mobi.html So what can Mac users do (and I am one myself) to develop mobility apps on OS X? The recommended method currently really is to run Windows (or Linux) in virtualization (via <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/" target="_blank">VirtualBox</a>, <a href="https://www.vmware.com/" target="_blank">VMWare Fusion</a>, or <a href="https://www.parallels.com/" target="_blank">Parallels</a>) and then the WTK on top of that virtualized OS. Not exactly elegant but it is generally pretty painless and works very well if your goal is to be productive and just get the job done. However, increasingly, people are also going the route of using Java ME emulators written in Java SE to provide mobility functionality on platforms that otherwise lack WTK support, such as OS X and Solaris. Copyright 1995-2003, Sun Microsystems, Inc https://weblogs.java.net/ en-us Terrence Barr 2008-09-21 Community: Mobile & Embedded The Sun WTK (Wireless Toolkit) for years has been the de-facto standard for mobile development on the Java platform (together with the "Mobility" plug-in for NetBeans which is built on the WTK). text/html Developing mobility apps on Mac OS X and Solaris O'Reilly and Associates java.net Weblogs 495 Sep 21, 2008 bucket/bu/64/9a53e578 49 https://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2008/09/bye_bye_mac_os.html If you follow my blog, you know that I've a bad attitude towards Apple's gear, even though (or just because?) I've been an Apple user for three years now. I've been frustrated by a) lack of support for Java updates, b) Mac OS X not performing as I need (Linux on the same hardware box is faster) and c) the scarce quality of my MacBook Pro (first generation). So, this week I can officially say that - at the moment - Mac OS X is no more my primary operating system. Copyright 1995-2003, Sun Microsystems, Inc https://weblogs.java.net/ en-us Fabrizio Giudici 2008-09-15 If you follow my blog, you know that I've a bad attitude towards Apple's gear, even though (or just because?) I've been an Apple user for three years now. I've been frustrated by a) lack of support for Java updates,... text/html Bye bye, Mac OS X? O'Reilly and Associates Sep 15, 2008 497 java.net Weblogs 49 bucket/bu/64/d4cb8787 https://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/java/SoyLatte_Meets_OpenJDK.20080819.html Landon Fuller has <a href="https://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/java/SoyLatte_Meets_OpenJDK.20080819.html">announced</a> that OpenJDK7 is now runnable on Mac OS X (and the BSDs) as part of the <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/projects/bsd-port/"> OpenJDK BSD Port</a> project, culminating the efforts of his <a href="https://landonf.bikemonkey.org/static/soylatte/">SoyLatte</a> project to bring the latest open-source JDK to the Mac. "The move to OpenJDK -- and Sun's re-licensing of the code under the GPL license -- opens the project to any interested contributor." He suggests there's more work to do with <a href="https://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/faq.jsp#k1">JCK</a> conformance testing, enabling dtrace support, PowerPC and ARM support via the <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/projects/zero/">Zero</a> project, Core Audio-based sound support, and more. To facilitate user testing, Landon has also posted <a href="https://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/java/OpenJDK_7_Binaries.20080820.html">OpenJDK 7 binaries</a> for Darwin (and, by extension, for Mac OS X). 2008-08-21 Aug 21, 2008 35 bucket/bu/64/c4298f64 https://images.apple.com/uk/education/whyapple/images/open_pic.gif https://rococoa.dev.java.net/ Offering a new route to using Cocoa classes in Mac Java applications, the new <a href="https://rococoa.dev.java.net/">Rococoa project</a>, "is a generic Java binding to the Mac Objective-C object system. It allows the creation and use of Objective-C objects in Java, and the implementation of Objective-C interfaces in Java." Using <a href="https://jna.dev.java.net/">JNA</a> to quickly wrap Objective-C calls, the project initially started as a QTKit wrapper to expose QuickTime functionality, Rococoa examples of which are provided on a <a href="https://rococoa.dev.java.net/rococoa-quicktime.html">QuickTime page</a>. Fair warning from the project owner, though: "Rococoa is very much work in progress. Much is subject to change. A lot isn't good enough not to change. But given the recent deprecation of the Java-Cocoa bridge, it's the best I've got. Just mind your head. And please give <a href="https://rococoa.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectMailingListList">feedback</a>." 2008-02-25 Feb 25, 2008 bucket/bu/64/d957971f 28 https://images.apple.com/science/whymac/images/righttool_xcode.jpg https://quaqua.dev.java.net/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=5514 The <a href="https://quaqua.dev.java.net/">Quaqua Look and Feel project</a> for Mac OS X has <a href="https://quaqua.dev.java.net/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=5514">released version 4.1</a>. "The Quaqua Look and Feel is a user interface library for Java applications which wish to closely adhere to the Apple Human Interface Guidelines for Mac OS X," automatically switching between appropriate looks for the Tiger, Panther, and Jaguar versions of OS X, and providing Swing implementations of NSBrowser and NSSheet. "Version 4.1 includes a FileChooserUI which roughly simulates the native file dialogs in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Except for panel backgrounds and frame borders, Quaqua still uses the Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger design." 2007-11-26 Nov 26, 2007 34 bucket/bu/64/2365473a https://developer.apple.com/documentation/Java/Conceptual/Java131Development/art/generic_java_icon.gif