Re: Gatekeeper on MacOS 10.7

The short version is: there will be a Java 7 for Mac. It will come from 
Oracle/Sun, not Apple, and it will update itself.  Thus it will be just like 
the JRE on Windows and Linux. 

However, they still recommend bundling a JRE with your app instead of the 
system install. Also, if you want to put a Java app in the Mac App Store, then 
you must bundle a JRE.

JRE = end user copy of Java. Fairly small (Windows version has usually been in 
the 7 to 10mb range)
JDK = developer copy of Java, including compiler, tools, etc. Huge. > 50MB.

Regarding the app bundling tools, I have this Ant task which will make a .app 
bundle for a Java app on today's Mac OSX (Lion), but it will not embed a JRE. 
This tool also will export an EXE or JNLP or double clickable jar.

http://joshondesign.com/2012/02/26/AppBundler_new_project

I'm going to donate my code to a larger project on Java.net that will be 
similar and also support JRE embedding on Java 7+.

I hope this clears things up.

- Josh 

-- 
Josh Marinacci
joshondesign.com


On Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Michael Hall wrote:

> 
> On Apr 3, 2012, at 4:01 PM, Joshua Smith wrote:
> > This is no longer correct:
> > 
> > On Apr 3, 2012, at 4:53 PM, Michael Hall wrote:
> > > On OS X we have been told that openjdk desktop applications will include 
> > > a bundled jdk/jre. Not optional. Not possible to omit. If my 
> > > understanding of that is correct. Discussion of it might be better 
> > > brought up on the openjdk list. Although if I'm completely wrong someone 
> > > might want to indicate that here, to not leave the wrong impression with 
> > > those not following that list.
> > 
> > See: 
> > http://skovatch.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/supporting-java-applications-on-os-x/
> > 
> 
> I did read this. Possibly due to not completely understanding the jdk/jre 
> division it didn't totally clear things up for me. I do not remember seeing 
> openjdk list mention of a update supporting application separate runtimes. If 
> there is functionality that is going to be added to the openjdk launcher code 
> that will allow this separate runtimes this would pretty much invalidate the 
> launcher code I made available. Which is pretty much just the parts I like of 
> a couple generations of the openjdk JavaAppLauncher pasted together anyhow.
> If this is going to get more into a discussion then moving it to openjdk 
> might be better.
> 
> 
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