Re: GPhone platform announced and No Java mentioned...but asked to assume

Hi Shawn,

Couple of things:

Part of what makes Android confusing is that there is actually very little information about what is actually in the platform. It *appears* that Dalvik VM runs some kind of Java - presumably a derivative of the Harmony project. Android is inventing its own application model and API functionality for all the underlying middleware. Finally, Google explicitly expects proprietary extensions and features in the stack but doesn't detail what the developer can expect and how this will affect fragmentation. So at this point it is hard to say how Android and standard Java and/or Java ME will play together. Some more background information in my blog:

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/archive/2007/11/sooo_what_about_1.html

As for BugLabs, your statement is not quite correct. BugLabs is *not* seeking a license for Java - what BugLabs is seeking is access to the TCKs to test their port of phoneME. This is really  independent to the Android announcement.

-- Terrence
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