-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm developing with Android since one month and since I've worked with Jini maybe I can give some points (all... to be taken with a pinch of salt).
1. The .dex thing is sometimes transparent, other times not transparent for what concerns classloaders. OTOH, as reported OSGi runs on Android and for sure it makes use of classloaders, so problems should be resolvable. 2. The runtime libraries aren't the entire Java runtime. Not only you entirely miss Swing, but also some parts of the low-level stuff. For instance, there's no java.bean.Introspector (not that this must be related to River, just a point). 3. I've been able to reuse some code I had and that made use of a few basic infrastructure APIs of the NetBeans Platform. I had some troubles, mainly because of a kitchen-sink problem of one of the classes (which brings in a lot of dependencies on AWT/Swing even though I don't need them). With a bit of patience, this has been solved by stubbing the required classes and using the Maven shade plugin (which is able to rename classes and packages in jars) to have them accepted by the runtime (you're forbidden to embed java.* classes on your app of course). 4. I'm using serialization internally to my application - I've seen some strange warnings in the logs, but it was fine. I've also read something around about people that tried serialization over the network against a plain Java, and had some issues. In the end, I think that running River on Android could be possible, with some work and maybe giving up to some functions. But it's one of those things that need to be tried. PS On a matter of perspective, even though I'm not an expert in scenario forecasts. I've been and I am a great advocate of JME, in spite of all its known troubles. But unless Oracle gives a big push, change the overall process about managing and evolving it, and considering the Android adoption rate, there are high chances that in a few years if you have to fact with Java(-like) on mobile stuff, it will be Android. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvv8x4ACgkQeDweFqgUGxcVeACeIIE1WQOXXXWeFtZ2eKqeBoQ3 E+QAoKYkIrQYLfTDrzgZjUCsVz0R5gfY =ObYN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
