Android isn't a Java Platform - Say Hello to Dalvik

[William Weinberg]

Dear OpenMoko Friends

See the following blog about the "neat tricks" that Google performed to
sidestep Sun Java licensing requirements.

http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/110/

The short of is

- Android code is written to a unique dialect of Java (super/subset)
that runs on Android's own Dalvik VM.  It's not J2ME or any other Sun
profile and apparently not subject to Sun's licensing regimes

- In doing so, Google created a new platform, better technically
perhaps, but not a Java-based platform.  This act by definition
increases fragmentation, whatever you may think of the ugly Java-based
status quo in the broader mobile market.

Your comments and reflections appreciated.

Bill
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