I think you miss the point, it's not acceptable to the mobile Market, Java's mobile offerings are a joke at best and sinister at worst. It took Android to creat

I think you miss the point, it's not acceptable to the mobile Market, Java's mobile offerings are a joke at best and sinister at worst. It took Android to create a competitive platform in the mobile space and Oracle is putting up every effort to squash any runtime work for the mobile space. It is relevant to Java because mobile is the future, tablets and mobile devices will become the dominate computing platform in the next few years and without inovation in that space, Java will be relegated to a language of the past. It is pretty clear that Oracle is dead set on killing Java mobile and I don't think it is because they see a future in Java ME or think they are working on a superior offering. Rather, I am more inclined to believe that they plan to help position the market for Apple to own the mobile platform. Apple being a vertical vendor like Oracle is very complementary to Oracle's world vision and vice versa. Allowing Apache to certify an alternative JVM would allow work to be done to optimize it for mobile. That is the real story behind all of these wrangling.