Apple ticks off Mac users with silent shutdown of Java 7
Found on Inforworld on Sunday, 03 February 2013
For the second time in a month, Apple has silently blocked the latest version of Java 7 from running on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or higher via its XProtect antimalware tool.
The update to XProtect will continue to block Java on Macs until Oracle releases Update 12, whenever that occurs. In the meantime, one fix proposed by a couple of Mac forums users is to delete the XProtect source file that lists the blacklisted Java, then turning off automatic updates to the safe downloads list.
This is one of the very rare times where I don't consider this move by Apple bad.