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There's been a fair amount written about Apple CEO Steve Jobs' pronouncement that Java is a "ball and chain" and isn't worth it anymore.

But don't tell that to Landon Fuller, a developer who has announced the first Developer Preview Release of open-source port of Java 6 to Mac OS X, including support for Leopard. Fuller told Javalobby.org, "Additionally, this is the first step towards adding Mac OS X support to OpenJDK. It's my hope to see Java 7, via OpenJDK, available for Mac OS X at the same time as Solaris, Linux, and Windows."

According to Javalobby, Fuller has a day job managing infrastructure for a Northern California games company.

There does seem to be a massive amount of work to be done by the development community to keep this going, if Fuller's announcement is any indication. Says Fuller, "I would also love to see Apple donate their own code to the OpenJDK project."

Given that Jobs considers Java to be a "ball and chain," the odds of that happening may not be all that great.

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