Google missed an opportunity -- they should have bought the rights to
call it the Dalek virtual machine (ala Doctor Who) :-)
On 2/14/2011 1:03 PM, mezmo wrote:
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 :-)).
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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.
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