It would be ideal if it would work with OpenJdk. It actually might already. Anybody tested that?
manfred On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:52 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Today's Topic Summary > > Group: http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/topics > > Android Development Tools - Support for Additional JDKs [2 Updates] > > Topic: Android Development Tools - Support for Additional JDKs > > JD <[email protected]> Jul 12 02:16PM -0700 ^ > > 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. > > > > Xavier Ducrohet <[email protected]> Jul 12 04:23PM -0700 ^ > > 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 > > > -- > Xavier Ducrohet > Android SDK Tech Lead > Google Inc. > > Please do not send me questions directly. Thanks! > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
