Max and MQTT?

I'm interesting in having Max talk to MQTT brokers - and I know there's been an MQTT plugin based around MXP (sp?) but now Java is no longer friends with OSX, I'm wondering if there's an alternative anywhere?

There are options to gateway through another service that consumes MQTT and squirts out another format (node-red sits in this space quite nicely, and is worth bringing to the attention of patchees exploring the network data space) but I'd like to avoid having another system and layer to manage if possible.