Google helps the java community in other regards. There's the active participation in the community by google employees such as Josh Bloch, which I assume is happening on google's dime. There's guava and a few other libraries. There's Google Code Jam, where java is the second most popular language. I'm sure there's more.
Either way, though, the mere existence of android is a massive boon to the java community. The amount of folks asking questions on i.e. freenode's ##java that are working on android is gigantic, and in most cases it doesn't even come up (suggesting there's a heck of a lot of active android programmers). At the end of the day these people might not be using "java" (the trademarked term), but their skills are so close as to make no difference. On Oct 12, 10:35 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/12/10 21:36 , Casper Bang wrote:> I personally think Google > contribute (to the Java ecosystem) more with > > expertise than hard lines of code in the libraries. When they bought > > Android and needed an application stack, they looked around and found > > a clean-room library implementation which would not require license > > fees. Whether they committed upstream to the Harmony libraries is > > hardly a measure of community involvement in general. For that, you > > need broader data > > points:http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2010/10/05/open-source-email-traffic/ > > I agree - but my curiosity is more technical. I'm guessing how much the > Harmony-originated subset of Android today diverges from Harmony. One > might think that (the mentioned subset of) Android is more a fork of > Harmony than Harmony itself. I'm clearly trying to assess the Android > impact of the Oracle + IBM deal. > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] -- 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.
