On Apr 10, 2009, at 6:16 PM, Tatu Saloranta wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_sun.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi Erdinc,
>>
>> It seems like GAE subsets JDK 6. I wonder why?
>
> I could be wrong, but based on my observations of Android platform
> (...yuck), it seems as if they had some sort of attitude regarding
> knowing better what to include, what not. And not being worried but
> following some subset (standard or de facto). Sort of like attitude I
> usually attributed to Microsoft SDK development teams. Or maybe it's
> just me. It could also be that developers in question are bit junior
> and ignorant of what's out there.
>
> It was frustrating trying to find rhyme or reason for Android's
> inclusion or exclusion of some parts of JDK. Some very strange
> external packages are, for example, included in their SDK, and many
> from regular JDK (esp. within areas of basic XML APIs,
> javax.xml.transfrom.stream to get Source objects used by JAXP) are
> omitted.
I agree it is frustrating.
IMHO GAE does not currently support Java and it is irresponsible to
say that it does.
Call it something else, call it Guava, but please do not call it Java.
Paul.