On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Les Stroud <[email protected]> wrote:

> I just wish that Google would license Java (they have the money) or
> change to a compatible license.  It sure would be nice if they could
> negotiate android java as the standard for j2me.


Seriously? Nice for whom?

Java ME has been dead for years, it's still mentioned here and there because
there are millions of devices still running it today, but hardly anyone
develops new stuff in Java ME these days.

Besides, "Android Java as the standard for Java ME" makes no sense to me.
The API's have nothing in common and Java ME is still stuck in a world of
Vectors and Hashtables.

Let it die, let's focus on the new generation of mobile OS and forget that
Java ME ever existed.


> Besides, they have just now added the JIT.  So, they are at about java 1.3
> with their VM.
>

How did you come to this conclusion? Android supports Java 1.5 (generics,
enums, etc...).


> An instant upgrade to a java6 VM would significantly improve their
> performance.


It's implementations that improve performance, not magically bumping version
numbers. Nothing prevents a JVM that only supports 1.2 to be faster than
Sun's 1.6 JVM.

-- 
Cédric

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