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What API's are Oracle dependent on? | 286 comments | Create New Account

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What API's are Oracle dependent on?

Authored by: darrellb on Thursday, May 10 2012 @ 07:06 AM EDT

Istm Oracle uses the fragmentation argument as a proxy for damages. The argument
is spurious, but what in Oracle's case isn't?

Google points out that, under Oracle's defintion of fragmentation, Android does
not fragment Java at all.

Oracle says run anywhere was never a promise that if you wrote code for one Java
platform that it would automatically/magically work on another. The write once,
run anywhere promise is relative to a specific one of the Java platforms.

Android is a separate platform. By Oracle's definition then, Android does not
fragment Java any more than the multiple Java(tm) platforms do.

Oracle claims fragmentation when an implementation is not what Oracle wants.
When Oracle approves of an implementaion or platform, no matter how compatible
it is with other Java(tm) platforms, there is no fragementation.

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