FX is an end-run around the ME fragmentation issue to a point. I say to a point in that there would appear to be times where you really need/want to duck into a Java library for part of the application's "back-end". Thus FX lessens the extent of the problem by replacing direct use of ME with FX, but the ME runtime is still broken in this respect and still a problem to the degree to which ends up doing any Java on it.
Fabrizio Giudici wrote: > 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. > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
