Were you worried about Apple's commitment to Java? Today's press release from Cupertino may make you feel a little better. It seems Oracle (who bought Sun and thus Java back in 2009) and Apple are going to support the OpenJDK project going forward. You can read the full press release below, but the practical upshot is that Java on the Mac is far from being dead. It's a good thing, too, because Java is still widely used for writing applications that need to be easily deployed across a multitude of platforms.
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REDWOOD SHORES and CUPERTINO, California-November 12, 2010-Oracle and Apple(R) today