> GWT and Android don't actually claim to be Java -- which is a key > distinction.
That's true, although that's again just legals. To 99% of developers there's really no distinction (although there's an obvious lack of Enum support in Android). > App Engine is a hosting environment and as such can arbitrarily restrict > what hosted code can access. [For all we know App Engine may have a > full JVM with everything present, but use tricks to limit what's visible > to hosted code.] It's still not Java then - the underlying pinnings such as Harmony isn't technically Java either. Btw. if you follow various emerging Sun technologies (i.e. JSR-311) you will notice steps are taking to run in these alternative environments. So it IS affecting the Sun vacuum. I don't pretend to know exactly what happened back around 99' with Sun and Microsoft and I am sure Microsoft was playing strategically, as all large corporations do. But I do think it's interesting how Google is also playing "embrace and extend" with quite a lot more success, with Sun in disarray while they try to reinvent the RIA marked. /Casper -- 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.
