On: Apple deprecates Java

[thought_alarm]

No, it means that Apple is not bringing Java 7 to OS X.

It doesn't prevent someone else from bringing Java 7 to OS X, nor does it mean that the existing support for Java 6 is going anywhere.

[cosmicray → thought_alarm]

It also means that Apple has to apply fewer engineering resources to supporting Java.

OS X and iOS, full steam ahead !

[jon914 → cosmicray]

For lengths of time, they only had one engineer on it by the name of Mike Swingler.

I can't speak for that today, but my source for this info was the Java Swing team themselves since they talked all the time with the Java "team" at Apple.