| @ChuckMcM - "Disclaimer though is that I was one of the Java guys and I had completely bought into the notion of 'write once, run anywhere'. Making that true turned out to be impossible for a number of reasons, not the least of which that the underlying OS providers were hostile to the idea." "Configuration Management is a Hard Problem (tm) on any system and people see the Windows eco-system or the MacOS eco-system and feel like they should be able to do that cross-platform." --- I'll just pipe in here real quick as cross-platform Java apps are core to the open source / middleware product I'm releasing called TyphonRT this summer. It's something I've personally worked on for many years well before Android's emergence. Fragmentation is difficult to solve alone across the variety of OS and device differentiation in the Android ecosystem without even considering cross-platform compatibility with the J2SE. TyphonRT is one such effort though and is built with a scalable configuration system via a component architecture. Major engineering of the client SDK / runtime will hopefully wrap up by the end of June with a closed beta for those interested w/ public launch end of summer / Q3. To support distribution across the Android ecosystem and desktop configurations part of TyphonRT is a PaaS system such as when a TyphonRT app is installed it will download any OS or device specific modifications / alternate components to "patch" or provide a stable middleware layer in attempt to keep that write once / run anywhere promise or get as close as possible. Of note I'll also be dumping over 10 years of solid Java real time app / game dev knowledge too through an expanding tutorial series w/ lots of code examples styled in a similar manner to Khan Academy. http://www.typhonrt.org/ Ok not to hijack this thread, but the work I am doing as an indie / startup is relevant to this discussion. This kind of solution with the current landscape surrounding Java is only going to come from the open source / indie area. |