> Rhapsody will have superb support for Java. Apple has decided that Java is a very important part of their future and has devoted significant resources to integrating it into Rhapsody. In his keynote speech, Avie Tevanian said that "Java is Apple's biggest opportunity." I found the Java information to be some of the most interesting and pleasantly surprising news to come out of the conference.

And it did for a while, this always felt like a Plan B, in case Mac OS developer community bread with Object Pascal and C++, would not accept Objective-C.

As soon as they got the message that Objective-C was being fully embraced by the developer community, Java bridge was dragged behind the barn and shot.

And then a whole decade was spent looking for a successor to Objective-C.