this is my understanding and i could be wrong:
first of all, gae supports java 1.5 which does not have jaxb by default.
secondly, i think they are using a real java vm. its just that they slap on
a security manager to make things tough on all of us (for good reason, i
presume).
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_sun.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
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