Sun wrote a JDK 1.0 for the Classic Mac OS; it wasn't very good. After that, many third parties did their own Mac JDKs (Netscape, IDE makers Metrowerks, Symantec, and Roaster, etc.), and Apple tried to simplify things for users by doing their own, bundling it with the OS, and advocating that browser makers and others just standardize on that.
Sun loaned engineers to Apple's JDK team for a while too, but they were cut in one of Sun's first dot-bomb RIFs. The "Apple won't let them" story is bogus -- Apple pays a license fee to Sun for the right to develop a Mac JDK, test against the JCK, and call it "Java". |
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