Posts by paladinx333

Oracle Has It Wrong

"Additionally, it modified the technology so it is not compliant with Java's central design principle to 'write once and run anywhere.'"

Write once, run anywhere is somewhat of a fallacy. In practice most Java implementations are platform specific.

I agree with Google’s legal position in this matter. I came to this conclusion using Oracle’s own arguments. It would be nice to be able to write Android apps using Java SE, but you can’t, because the abomination that Google created is NOT Java. The code needed for Android is Java-like, or as I like to call it, pseudo-Java.

This is just a attempt by Oracle to extract revenue from the mobile industry. They have no market presence in that sector what so ever. One has to wonder they acquired Sun for the sole purpose of leveraging the Java patents against Google. After the complete mess they made of the Java Store, nothing those buffoons do would really surprise me.

Anyone remember the Java Store?

When Oracle purchased Sun I was willing to give them a chance to make Java shine again. The bold statements about their future plans for Java all sounded very positive. Some things in Java land did not work out as well as some may have hoped.

The Java Store no longer exists. They stopped approving new apps back in July. It isn't possible to preview or purchase apps in the Java Store because the servers are shut down. Oracle employees on the Java store team no longer respond to emails from developers. For the all the big talk about Java that Oracle has been spouting for the last nine months, they should be deeply embarrassed about the complete failure of the Java Store.