On Apr 15, 7:38 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > You know my position.... you have billions of phones with JME indeed, > so at least for the first decade of 2000 I can't consider JME a > failure. Historically, it has been the first way to write reasonably > cross-platform stuff, even with its huge fragmentation issues. It > proved to be viable and if Android uses Java with all the changes that > you and Osvaldo said, I think it's also thanks to JME...
It certainly has been a success for Sun since they got a lot of JME license fees. To me, it was a failure because doing any non-trivial JME was prohibitively expensive for "regular developers" due to hundreds of different handsets, dozens of different carrier certifications and different JME implementations. Of course, you couldn't do a lot with phones ten years ago, but Sun never managed to ease testing and certification: I don't recall the exact number, but at the last JavaOne it was mentioned that if you wanted to submit your JME app across all carriers in all supported languages, you needed 10,000 different versions of your app. It took a powerful and stubborn/arrogant company (Apple) to change all that. -- 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.
