It's Dalvik, by the way (a small village in Iceland where, contrary to a widespread rumor, the author of the VM had never set foot before naming the virtual machine after it :-)).
-- Cédric On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 6:55 AM, mezmo <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > 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. > > -- Cédric -- 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.
