Future of Java on Mac OS X

Question

I'm mainly developing in .NET since a year (even if I start coding in Java during my studies) and I have to port a .NET application (more precisely an agent running as Windows Service which call a web service to transfer information and files) to Mac OS X.

My first idea was to develop a Java version of the application. But I read some articles about the future of Java on Mac OS X and I'm a little perplexed about this choice.

What do you think?

Answer 1

The future of Java on Mac is fine. Apple is contributing their code to the OpenJDK project, which has also started a project (starting Java 7) to build binaries for Mac. So, in the near future, we Mac users will be able to install JREs and JDKs pretty much the same way that Windows and Linux users do.

Have a read here and here.