Classpath Exception not included in the mobile edition [LWN.net]

Classpath Exception not included in the mobile edition

Posted Aug 18, 2010 11:42 UTC (Wed) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
In reply to: Classpath Exception not included in the mobile edition by dgm
Parent article: A very grumpy editor's thoughts on Oracle

> Java ME started out as an effort to bring Java back to its original
> roots: as a language and environment for writing embedded applications.
> The baseline ME profiles are pretty bare; I did some CLDC development
> years ago and had to implement my own buffered streams and various data
> structures just to get by. Even the biggest profiles are still fairly
> restricted, and I don't believe any of them have ever graduated beyond
> Java 1.3-level featuresets. So Sun did a great job of getting Java ME on
> devices, back when people cared about Sun...and then they let mobile Java
> stagnate to a terrible degree while they spent all resources trying to
> get people to use Java EE and trying to get Java EE to suck less.

http://blog.headius.com/2010/08/my-thoughts-on-oracle-v-g...

> Android breaks new ground in the device category because it is a Java 2
> Standard Edition(J2SE) platform, whereas the previous generations of
> Java-based devices are predominantly Java Micro Edition (Java ME)
> based. There are significant differences between J2SE and Java ME in
> terms richness of libraries and APIs and this creates a big opportunity
>for improved application capabilities. Most notable are the
> full-featured Java 5 language support, libraries like java.util.* and
> collections, and full multi-threaded support built on the Android Linux
> kernel.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/bdb...

> As of 2008, all Java ME platforms are currently restricted to JRE 1.3
> features and uses that version of the class file format (internally
> known as version 47.0). Should Sun ever declare a new round of Java ME
> configuration versions that support the later class file formats and
> language features, such as those corresponding JRE 1.5 or 1.6 (notably,
> generics), it will entail extra work on the part of all platform vendors
> to update their JREs.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Java_Platf...

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