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In a quiet update yesterday, Apple indicated that its support for Java on Macs isnt long for this world.

This means that the Apple-produced runtime will not be maintained at the same level, and may be removed from future versions of Mac OS X.

The Java runtime shipping in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, will continue to be supported and maintained through the standard support cycles of those products.

In other words: Apple is discouraging the use of Java on its computers for the future, with the strong hint that its going to stop supporting it altogether.

The same goes for the forthcoming Mac App Store, according to rules for developers leaked online today.

Rule No. 2.24 states, Apps that use deprecated or optionally installed technologies (e.g., Java, Rosetta) will be rejected.

Unlike the dispute with Adobe, for normal folks using their Mac in a non-corporate computing environment, this isnt that big of a deal.

Theres unlikely to be huge demand for Java apps from the forthcoming App Store, and for applications that use Java that are installed through other means, anyone who really needs to use Java will have to make sure its installed before they use it.

Corporate IT people, if they support Macs at their company, would install their own software anyway.

But for consumers, the need for Java is probably going to be fairly rare.

As for why Apple is going this route, we know CEO Steve Jobs prefers native applications for his devices.

To Jobs, that means theyre coded for the lowest common denominator interface, which for him, means theyre terrible.

Apple doesnt ship it, but Adobe does, and other companies besides Apple will continue to use it.

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