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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 04 2012 @ 10:28 AM EDT
Depends on what you mean by "Java".

For Sun, Java(TM) "with a capital J and a TM" was a construct composed
of the keywords, syntax, APIs, docs, VM and so on - all of which have passed
TCK. This is Sun/Oracle's Java of choice as it gives them $ and also a ton of
control.

For most engineers, Java "with a capital J" is the above but without
the TCK. Harmony might be an example but there are loads of others. This version
works but its kind of at your own risk. And you can't call it Java(TM).
Sun/Oracle has always left these implementations alone it seems.

For me, java "with a little j" is just the keywords and syntax. So I
can write java with myjava.stuff.Thing instead of java.lang.Object as long as
everything else in my tool chain: compilers, VMs, libs etc all expect me to do
so.

So Google could technically use "java" with alternative APIs as they
control the tool chain. But I dont see why they should have to.


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