On Apr 8, 7:11 am, Fernando Cassia <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps it´s the only way for Web OS to ever get a decent Java VM... ? > > http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/04/08/palm-ceo-puts-... > > Also, Sun tried, unsuccesfully, to get a top-notch Java mobile OS with > SavaJe... > > As a Palm OS user, I know very well about the hassle of dealing with > IBM´s J9 Java VM. > > The question is: would Oracle´s Ellison be interested?. > > Thoughts? Comments? Expletives?. ;-) > > FC
My thought is it might very well be throwing good money after bad. Java on cell phones seems to me to be an failure at the moment. The hope for a single language & programming model for all cell phones is destroyed, at the moment. This is partly due to iphone/android/html5/ etc efforts, and partly due to the bad quality of incumbent JavaME. Evidence: a) All the attention is on Android and/or iPhone, neither of whom are Java compatible, b) Cellphone Java had been compelling enough it would be a leading contender. If cellphone java had been compelling, decision makers in the android or iPhone camps would have taken steps to ensure it was there. They didn't. c) Why isn't there angst over Java missing from android and/or iPhone as there is about Flash missing from them? Again, testament to lack of compellingness of cellphone Java. d) HTML5+Javascript+CSS are on a path of becoming powerful enough to implement a huge portion of what formerly had to be done with Flash or Java applets. Maybe the Java on my old phone (Sony Ericsson Z520) is not representative - the Java on that device is bad, period, ugly, slow, etc, representative of all the negative stereotypes of Java. If that's the state of cellphone Java then why would anybody want it? It's a shame really because the current state of software development for cellphones is more than fragmented. I think that's a bad thing and would prefer harmony among cell phone software stacks. But that's not how things worked out. But maybe the new harmony really will be HTML and Javascript? - David Herron http://davidherron.com Formerly worked among the people who implemented Java ME/SE/EE -- 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.
