Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Android apps development Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 16:55:25 -0400 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net xQsUxuhx7RXwL0QeV2P/e1XquN1uX+l/wkpngHiE7hRQVUaJw+bXJIw3UXwGDqTm9gijDYvFnkpBYFSao88fPw== NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 20:54:14 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="zLXa6hrePWe5nngmJYAQ/0EK2zRFsAL3vscd7GvWCfSg85dE+Id7MamVUNEyXvYgtWFhbhs/mkdeBK778bOwX0ZUIwrWRQTlQj0CQVpBO5GftlSuTbqkzKMniUGQsXcP"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Thunderbird/3.1.8 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:wRB1tHnZmug1YcT2zSwYc+MYvQM= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3518 vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote: > When I got a PPC machine and a Linux machine, I thought I would be able to > gain portability with Java apps.. but that was a mirage.. the only machine I > own where Java works is XP pro. I don't get why Android can't run Java well. > I tis pretty silly from my view. Are you saying that Java doesn't work on Linux, IBM mainframes, Solaris, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server, BSD, Mac or Android, or that you don't own those machines? Because it does work on all those platforms. The version of Java on Android is not the desktop version. So? How does Java not work on Android? You don't "gain portability" by writing in Java for all definitions of "portability". If you had the wrong idea of what portability is, that ain't Java's fault, sport. That's your fault. What kind of portability did you want that you did not get? Don't Java 5 desktop programs work on all Java 5 and 6 desktop platforms? What are you doing wrong that you are whining is Java's fault? -- Lew Honi soit qui mal y pense. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Friz.jpg