[Coco] Anyone Interested In CoCo Emulator On Android?

[Brad Grier]

Yes. Android apps are written in Java and compiled to a bytecode 
incompatible with the traditional Java virtual machine. I wouldn't say 
it's compiled into an executable anymore than any other Java program. In 
fact, Dalvik didn't get a just-in-time compiler until the recent release 
of Android 2.2. As far as I'm concerned, it's the same language with a 
different set of APIs.

I'm not a big fan of Oracle either but I don't think Java is going 
anywhere (I've been hearing about it's eventual demise since, oh, 1995). 
There are lots of exciting things happening with alternative languages 
that compile down to Java bytecode (Scala for example).


On 9/9/2010 2:00 AM, Steve Bjork wrote:
> I've never liked Java and Oracle, the new owners of Java (because they
> bought Sun) has a lawsuit against Google for the way they have done Java
> on Android.
>
> See:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_applet#The_2010_Oracle_-_Google_lawsuit
>
> Google at the same time calls the suit "attack on /Java/ community"
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28mobile_device_platform%29#cite_note-161>
> and will fight it. (for years.)
>
> If Oracle keeps this up, Java could be a dead language someday.
>
> I should point out...
> While Android applications are written in Java, there's no Java Virtual
> Machine in the platform and Java byte code is not executed. Java classes
> get recompiled into Dalvik executable and run on Dalvik virtual machine.
> Dalvik is a specialized virtual machine designed specifically for
> Android and optimized for battery-powered mobile devices with limited
> memory and CPU. Android does not support J2ME, like some other mobile
> operating systems.
>
> Steve Bjork
>
> On 9/8/2010 8:57 PM, Brad Grier wrote:
>> I'd like to see Mocha running on my HTC Incredible. Since Android apps
>> are written in Java (albeit with a different UI library), I don't
>> think it would be too difficult. Anyone else with an Android device
>> and a Color Computer fetish? I'm excited about dusting off the Mocha
>> code...it's been a while.
>>
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