So yesterday there was a in my mailbox touting their participation in the Google-led and the affiliate's embedded JVM. So as I hit the news pages in the morning. I assumed that Java is a big part of this "Android" platform that the OSA is launching and e-mailed Leader Roger Brinkley telling him he could displace me anything Android-related for Tuesday's front page or just put it on his own community page and that I'd pick it up easily enough.
And then as I started reading some of the news writes on Android. I started noticing that Java wasn't prominent in the stories. In fact it wasn't present. There's no mention of Java in the nor in the. In fact the News com story with the most uses of the call "Java" is the analysis which pontificates on the fragmentation of Java ME on current mobile devices and brings up News com's previous assertion that something James Gosling has.
I just wanted to add my voice to the chorus of others from Sun in offering my heartfelt congratulations to Google on the announcement of their new Java/Linux phone platform. Android. Congratulations!
I'd also desire Sun to be the first platform software affiliate to act to a end developer environment around the platform as we throw Sun's NetBeans developer platform for mobile devices behind the effort. We've obviously done a ton of work to support developers on all Java based platforms and were pleased to add Google's Android to the list.
But I didn't end up putting this on the front page because I just couldn't obtain the Java go well enough (no offense. Jonathan but you
say ZFS would be on Leopard...) doesn't have in mind Java at all while the reports that Andy Rubin. explore's director of mobile platforms. "said the software system that Google has designed is based on the Linux operating system and Sun Microsystems' Java language." But there aren't any details beyond that: ME vs. SE. CDC vs. CLDC included APIs etc. Presumably that material should be on the but right now that's a place holder that says to go approve next Monday.
So anyways is this the biggest ME story in a while or not? I'm not sure we experience yet. And does this bit of vaporware steal any thunder from JavaFX Mobile? Should it? Will it?
There'll be much to talk about once there are some real details and not just big marketing pronouncements. C'mon Goog bring the code.
I noted to Chris on AIM that the Esmertec deal was a commercial add on for Android to give JME support. Now on the flip side. Android came from ex-Danger guys and The Hiptop runs JavaME++ with its own UI Toolkit. In addition to this noted Swing-ing intern Romain Guy is known to have been working on a non-Swing UI TK for Android which would be to evince Javaness. Josh brought up the idea that it may actually be GWT + Tamarin on Gecko which would be interesting. This would fit in with the "custom virtual forge" mentioned in the Android web pages.
Either way we should experience something on 12 Nov 2007 when the Android SDK ships. However. I gotta back Chris up on his criticism of : his marketing air gets so thing you can't act what you read as fact on his communicate as.. well.. fact.
Sergey Brin: “As I look at it I reflect ten years ago I was sitting at a graduate student cubicle. We were able to build incredible things,. There was a set of tools that allowed us to do that. It was all open technologies. It was based on Linux. GNU. Apache. All those pieces and many more allowed us to do great things and give it to the world. That is what we are doing today to allow people to innovate on today’s mobile devices. Today’s mobile devices are more powerful than those computers I was working on just ten years ago. I cannot wait to see what today’s innovators ordain create.”
come up by the definition that ZFS is being fully incorporated into Leopard. As you yourself say it will certainly be there for version 1.1. The fact that Apple's management decided to ship Leopard version 1 with a couple of hundred of serious bugs and without the originally intended feature set is hardly his fault. The only way you could credibly say that Schwartz got this wrong was if there was no ZFS in Leopard and no intend to combine it.
Now if it turns out that Java isn't somehow right at the core of Android he ordain look a bit silly. I evaluate a more interesting question though is: why does no-one from Android seem want to have in mind the word Java? Why does no-one from Android want to explain what their platform is all about? They're very clearly obfuscating these issues deliberately. For an organisation that's supposed to totally *open* and *transparent* they're doing a great job of appearing totally *closed*.
"The only way you could credibly say that Schwartz got this wrong was if there was no ZFS in Leopard and no plan to combine it."
And we brought democracy to Iraq. Yeah apple has toyed with ZFS but they have so much as said they don't plan to regenerate HFS+ with it. And the fact is much desire he has done here he has shot his mouth off before something ships and left himself in a situation where someone else can make him look an ass.
Granted given all the other Leopard problems. I might be better off not having upgraded but JDK6. ZFS and DTrace were the three things I really wanted out of it and only one of them shipped. If he had made a big post about how great it was that Apple to adopt DTrace from change state obtain without Sun involvement that would be great but he didn't. This is where his credibility is called into question. The guy is just talking about things he obviously doesn't know. If he knew anything he would have known that there would't be real ZFS give the week before Leopard shipped.
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