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Springboard(?) instead of Sun APIs
Authored by: hardmath on Tuesday, April 17 2012 @ 07:01 PM EDT

I first thought what Ellison was trying to testify to is that one doesn't have to use Sun's JRE, that other companies have implemented JRE's (Java Runtime Environments), among them IBM.

However I'd never heard of a "Springboard" implementation of Java. There is a Springboard Javascript implementation, which may be what Ellison has in mind.

If that's intended seriously as a way to show you can write Java programs without APIs, someone needs to rip them up over it. While it is an "ultraminimal" Javascript environment intended to cover the bases for HTML+CSS+JS Web projects, it is not Java.

Springboard makes use of Google's Closure Compiler, among other things.

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Springboard doesn't need APIs
Authored by: mdhmiller on Wednesday, April 18 2012 @ 12:15 AM EDT
I imagine he referring to Spring
produced by springsource which is a division of VmWare
http://www.springsource.com/

... Mark Miller

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Springboard doesn't need APIs
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 18 2012 @ 12:17 AM EDT
Boies tried to confuse here. He said "Sun" API, not "Java"
API. Did they ever defined what "Sun" API is? When Ellison answered
that question, I wonder did he think was this "Sun" API? If the
question was rephrased with "Java" API, I think he might have a
different answer.

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