Apple joins Oracle in the OpenJDK project to ensure open source Java for Mac OSX
Given that we are a Mac-based company and that we release multiple Java-based products on Windows, Linux and MacOS X, I was pleased to see this news release from Apple and Oracle that Apple will be joining the OpenJDK project to ensure that an open source Java implementation will be available for MacOS X. Henrik Ståhl’s Java blog has a bit more information (emphasize “a bit”) and TechCrunch also covered the story this morning.
As noted in Henrik Ståhl’s Java blog, it’s not clear when an OpenJDK implementation for Mac OSX will be out… but it is at least now in the queue. Good news given Apple’s recent deprecation of their own version of the JDK.
Originally from Voxeo Blogs

Given that we are a Mac-based company and that we
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