Re: The ASF Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, I didn't mean it that way.  I should have been more specific: this
limtitation prevents Harmony from running on an appliance and claiming to
be Java compatible.

It's really a tempest in a teapot, at least for now.  As Thorbjørn noted,
SE 6 is perfectly adequate for anything coming down the pike.  If Oracle
does indeed force a fork between "official" SE 7 and the current open
source JVM, it will be interesting to see how the open source community
rects - will new libraries use only SE 6 capabilities?  Oracle is in
danger of turning Java into PHP - the PHP4 vs PHP5 battle is still not
pretty.

Joe


> I don't agree with Joe that Oracle doesn't want Java running on embedded
> devices. Yes Oracles bread and butter is on the server side, but the
> server
> side usually talks to some kind of device on the user end.