on a higher note..seems like oracle is going to make java a component
in its suite of packages soon..i think i mentioned my point a few
mnths back on this..

didnt quite expect things to start getting changed so soon..:)

larry sure is cost effective...:)..really trims down the costs ..& the
competition..

regards,
jd

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot
<reini...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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