Am I dense, or is everyone just misinformed? Oracle attacked google on the basis of VM patents.
How is this even remotely relevant to GWT? On Aug 14, 4:45 pm, David S <dbus...@gmail.com> wrote: > It comes to mind that Oracle could have some of the same problems with > GWT's use of Java that they have with Android. With GWT, Java is > compiled to an intermediate format (Javascript vs dex) and that > resulting code is run on a non-standard virtual machine (Javascript > engine vs Dalvik) on a machine that may not have a licensed JVM > installed. Also, GWT only supports only a subset of the Java class > library and there is a non-standard JNI like extension to the language > for executing Javascript from Java code. > > It's making me think twice about recommending GWT. In fact it has me > thinking about a move to non-JVM/Java languages generally; something I > wouldn't have considered a month ago. > > There probably wouldn't be the big payoff for licensing Java for GWT, > so Oracle might not even be interested. It is also possible that > Google has an agreement with Sun/Oracle about GWT already. I have no > idea about that. > > Still, it just creates a lot of uncertainty about the future of Java/ > JVM based stuff for me. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
