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You mean to tell me that Oracle think that embedded devices will run Java? Heavens, I'm shocked. "Embedded devices" is such a broad term now, that they need to
by getoffmalawn 14y ago
You mean to tell me that Oracle think that embedded devices will run Java? Heavens, I'm shocked.
"Embedded devices" is such a broad term now, that they need to scope it a little better. An ATM running Windows is considered embedded by some definition, which is kind of what I suspect they're talking about here - not resource-constrained devices like Arduino boards, as inferred by the image at the top of the article.
- GotAnyMegadeth 14y ago"...embedded devices... will be driven by Java, according to two recent Oracle-commissioned white papers." lol
- w0utert 14y agoIt gets even funnier when they mention 'security considerations' as a major benefit of using Java for said 'intelligent embedded devices', and that Java was 'originally designed and conceived to run in embedded devices [and] was precisely focused on the portability and productivity problems faced by embedded developers'. Last few times I read about widespread cross-platform malware that affected Windows, Linux, OS X and even Android, sometimes all at the same time, these exploits were based on Java security holes :-S
- cgh 14y agoThe security problems came by way of the browser plugin, a different beast entirely.