jvm

A different angle here at articlesmodern.com, concerning Android's new Dalvik Java Virtual Machine.

Dalvik, is, you see, completely Google's invention, which as alright, I guess. Problem is, Android and Dalvik are not part of the Java Community Process, the standards group Sun put together to keep track of standards around new Java features. Apparently Google thought it would show Sun how it should be done:

“We wanted the platform to be open in a lot of different ways,” said Mike Cleron, a Google senior staff engineer working on Android. “The idea is that anybody can come along and replace the pieces of the Android experience on a very fine-grained level. The existing APIs didn’t really allow the level of openness we were hoping to achieve in Android.”

This fragmentation has some worried, apparently, and for good reason, as evidenced by my favourite part of the article:

Mauro Lollo, CEO of mobile phone video-streaming company Movidity, saw Google’s work similarly. “In essence, they’ve created another standard. Standards are great, but the challenge is that there are so many of them,” he said.

Well said, Mr Lollo.