Donald, do you know if the iOS version has the JIT compiler? I know Apple 
reduced the restriction for some cases, but I can’t remember if it applied to 
us or not. Or is the VM on iOS interpreter only?

Richard

> On Oct 7, 2015, at 2:21 PM, Donald Smith <donald.sm...@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> There is no "official  JDKs for iOS and Android", and anyone that tries to 
> spin the recent OpenJDK project announcement as such is likely just trying to 
> consume you as click-bait.  The recent project announcement is simply to make 
> internal code we have for some of our other commercial products available to 
> those who may wish to use it (and therefore we hopefully benefit from any 
> contributions back). That's it.  It won't be released as part of the Oracle 
> JDK.  It's just some source, for OpenJDK.
> 
> - Don
> 
> On 07/10/2015 5:11 PM, Felix Bembrick wrote:
>> The world of Java and JavaFX is growing more confusing than ever it seems.
>> 
>> Some say Oracle is cutting back on funding for Java because it is 
>> effectively helping its competitors. Sounds similar to Google forking WebKit 
>> so they weren't writing code for Apple.
>> 
>> But now we hear of the looming release of official JDKs for iOS and Android 
>> from Oracle.
>> 
>> Will these JDKs be the best and simplest way of running JavaFX on those 
>> platforms? Without JIT support, will these JDKs support AOT compiling?
>> 
>> Do the proposed JDKs for mobiles even include JavaFX?
>> 
>> Felix
> 

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