On Thursday, March 15, 2012 3:31:01 AM UTC-5, fabrizio.giudici wrote: What? Java doesn't run on iOS because Apple forbids that. AFAIK there's no > technical reason. > > Absolute nonsense! This is 100% technical.
Apple isn't willing to cooperate in delivering a traditional JRE on iOS. And if you are stuck in the classic Java mindset, where you need a traditional JRE to do anything, that's the end of it. Apple also won't do the same with Flash/Flex and .NET/Mono/Silverlight. Mono adapted their tool chain to generate native iOS binaries with the Mono/CLR runtime invisibly embedded. I believe Adobe and many other dev tool companies do the same. Java could absolutely do this, but simply doesn't. This is absolutely a technical issue that is completely fixable. You are also right that we are off topic: a new Java IDE that is built from the ground up for development inside of Android sounds amazing. When I finally buy an Android tablet/netbook -- I'd like to see what Google does with the rumored Nexus tablet before I buy -- this will be the first product that I try. I'd love to see a IDE built from the ground up with the Android GUI system. I imagine this won't be nearly as complete as IntelliJ or Eclipse or NetBeans, but I imagine this will have a strong fun factor for a lot of projects. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/SSrsnrq2LXYJ. 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.
