Tech giants Apple and Oracle have relieved developers who feared Java may be removed from future versions of Mac OS X, saying the platform will still be available on the Mac.
Both companies announced last week that while Apple won’t implement the feature in its operating system, the company will still make Java available on the Mac.
“We’re delighted to be working with Oracle to ensure that there continues to be a great version of Java on the Mac,” said Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s SVP of software engineering, in a statement.
“The best way for our users to always have the most up-to-date and secure version of Java will be to get it directly from Oracle.”
Oracle said in a separate blog post that the company was sorry for the silence between announcements.
“I understand that the uncertainty since Apple’s widely circulated ‘deprecation’ of Java has been frustrating, but due to the nature of these things we have neither wanted to or been able to communicate before,” he said.
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