I just want to get something off my chest about Joe's continued confusion about the Sun/Microsoft suit and how Dalvek is different. Microsoft was adding keywords, adding classes to the standard java libraries, and refusing to support RMI and JNI, adding some custom classes in the java.namespace to do similar things with COM. Plus they wanted Sun to thank them for it and allow them to still call it Java. Google with Dalvek on the other hand has gone out of its way to make sure that everyone knows that Dalvek is not Java. It doesn't directly run plain Java bytecode, and if there is a java.* class anywhere it does pretty much exactly what the original did. For non-standard extensions, those are in clearly marked android.* packages, which I personally believe if Microsoft had done, Sun wouldn't have had nearly as strong a case as they did.
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