We would have to get rid of our dependency on the sun.security package.

To be honest, I'm not sure of the amount of work this would require.
Maybe I can look into it in a couple weeks.

Xav

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:16 PM, JD <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does Google plan to add support for other JDKs for its Android
> development tools (SDK tools, Eclipse plugin, ...)?
>
> Currently, the development tools only support the Sun JDK. For
> example, I have found these three threads related to errors received
> while using the IBM JDK:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/android-internals/browse_thread/thread/954ee18e346a29a5
> http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners/browse_thread/thread/7b6686de97dc0d08
> http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners/browse_thread/thread/d4b74f365deb3e92
>
> It would be convenient for developers if the development tools could
> run with other popular JDKs (e.g. IBM, Apache Harmony) and therefore
> support a variety of other development environments. Is there any
> technical reason why the tools cannot be made to support other JDKs?
> Any information on this would be appreciated.
>
> If this is not the correct place to post this, please let me know.
>
> Thanks.
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