Leveraging the thousands of Java ME apps on the market and run those on tablets... (RIM PLaybook, WebOS)

[Fernando Cassia]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:04 PM,  <hwadechandler-openjdk at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On some systems, you probably can't get a JVM on them. But, what could happen is
> to precompile the application to a native version for a targeted platform.

Why not? What prevents Oracle from compiling a JVM for RIM Playbook OS
and offer it for download from Java.com?. Vendors can just pacakge
app-installers that check if the JVM is present on the device and if
not, download it Over the Air and install it.

H*ck, Sun even offered a MIDLET 1.0 Java VM for PalmOS a decade ago.

> Different look and feels etc and capabilities could exist which one could
> include in their final output; well on the look and feel I envision this just
> using the native libraries and essentially exist a translation layer of some
> sort. Would need preprocessors etc too.

Java adopts the native OS look an feel (Java SE at least) I´ve seen it
on Windows and Linux. There´s no technical reason why that can´t be
made in other OSs too.

> Write once run anywhere is a good idea in principal, but in reality that isn't
> going to always be possible. Where it is, and where it makes good business
> sense, then it is good to have, but based on what has won and what hasn't it
> seems that model wasn't a winner.

Just because there´s no central store to retrieve apps. Sun had it
right in creating a Java App Store. Oracle should refloat that effort.

Abonut J2ME apps, cross-platform works, I run Google´s GMail Java ME
app on my Palm Centro, even while it isn´t a supported configuration.
It just works.

What I envision is being able to click on a ".jad" http:// link on a
tablet browser, and (after the Java VM is configured as helper app)
the OS offering me to run the mobile app as a desktop widget on the
given tablet.

Like
http://ho.io/GMail4Java

FC