I stand corrected. Thanks!
On Feb 14, 10:52 am, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
