On Apr 14, 2009, at 11:10 AM, Walter Chang wrote:
> 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).
>
I am slightly off topic here, but cannot resist :-)
I think the underlying core issue is that it is hard to create
profiles of the JDK/Java because it cannot be easily modularized on a
technical level and also for registration/agreement of a profile for
interoperability. I believe there are motions to improve this
situation like Project Jigsaw.
Paul.
>
> 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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