Last week, Steve Jobs took the stage and Apple unveiled its new OS, a sleek new MacBook Air, as well as a Mac App Store. But with much less pomp and circumstance, the company also issued an announcement that Java had been "deprecated" on Mac OS X. According to the release notes from the latest update to Java for Mac, "As of the release of Java for Max OS X 10.6 Update 3, the version of Java that is ported by Apple, and that ships with Max OS X, is deprecated." Sponsor "This means that the Apple-produced runtime will not be maintained at the same level, and may be removed from future versions of Max OS X.