Oracle: Google has ‘destroyed’ the future of Java on mobile devices

As a long time Java developer (since 1996) and advocate of the language and platform, the legal action from Oracle against Google and Android deeply saddens me. If anything, what Google has achieved is nothing but incredible and outstanding, as they have turned an arguably Java based/influenced platform into the most successful mobile device platform by far, something which Sun and now Oracle were never able to achieve.

Instead of crying over their lost opportunity, Oracle should be doing everything possible to partner with Google and license Android and/or adopt it as the mobile device platform for Java.

The joke that is Java ME needs to be ditched. It’s had it’s time. It was on almost all (what are now called) feature phones sold years back, but no-one apart from (some) Java developers knew this, so now even that potential success is nothing but a lost opportunity.

Please Oracle, do yourself a favor, preserve what little respect you have left from your loyal Java developers: if there’s anything being destroyed here it is our faith in you as a Company and as the guardian of Java.

Ditch Java ME, and license Android from Google as the new Java ME.

Android is what Java ME should have been from day one.

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