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Authored by: feldegast on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 10:25 AM EDT |
I forgot the tongue in cheek tags but Oracle did say that
Java was very important
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 10:40 AM EDT |
"Google may not owe Oracle licensing fees or very little but
Google is using Java to further its own interests and not
that of the Java community."
Clearly for their own interests, but also as a by-product,
in the interests of the community.
Java skills can now be used to target an incredibly broad
base of compatible mobile devices, which has never been the
case in the same way historically.
The Android platform is far more mature than Java ME ever
was, and has greater flexibility for device use, in-terms of
UI options.
Android code is open sourced, meaning that it can be learned
from and used by the community in Java projects.
Bad for the community? Maybe some traditional Java
developers will have to learn some mobile-centric approaches
to coding, but that's better than the alternatives of
1) learning an entirely new language structure if Google had
gone with (for example) Ruby or Python, or Go.
2) Being stuck with Java ME, and trying to figure out what
is supported by MIDP or (insert ME profile variant) and have
your app still limited and running on certain subsets of
certain handsets.
If Java ME is dead, it's good for the community, it was
never well thought through.
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