Jess Holle wrote: > Well JavaFX can run on top of Java ME, right? > > And there are unofficial (non-Google) ME adapters for Android, so by this path I'd think this *should* be feasible. > > Such an approach does seem a bit clunky, though. > > In some respects, Android strikes me as more Java-compatible than ME. It supports Java 5 language features -- ME does not, it's still stuck in a Java 1.3 world. ME would seem to drive a much larger technology schism into the Java community than Android. Anything I'd develop for SE these days makes heavy use of Java 5 language features and often uses Java 5 (and 6) specific APIs throughout. ME is thus a death knell for write once run anywhere. Sure, ME is meant to be a smaller subset of APIs, etc, but using an antiquated version of the language means nothing modern from SE can just run on ME. How's that for splintering the community?
I disagree. Once you have JavaFX mobile, you're sure you have ME + MSA, which means you're sure you have a lot of JSRs. Since Android is more than ME, this means that we could have a "rich" JavaFX implementation. To me, this means the end of most of the fragmentation issues of ME, and makes the JavaFX-on-top-of-everything the best approach for WORA in the mobile world. The remaining issues are non techinical: 1. The endorsements of the two technologies. If I'm not wrong, both JavaFX and Android are today supported by a couple of devices each. Should Sun release a software for enabling other mobile phones with MSA, we would have dozens of models supported by JavaFX. 2. I'm pretty sure Google is not willing Sun to port JavaFX to Android. A problem that could be worked around whether Sun will open source JavaFX. -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/blog [email protected] - mobile: +39 348.150.6941 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
