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> Even J2ME is more compatible with its big brother than Android. Are you serious? J2ME is even more crippled than Android's Java (no reflection, no Swing, no

> Even J2ME is more compatible with its big brother than Android. Are you serious? J2ME is even more crippled than Android's Java (no reflection, no Swing, no AWT and stuck in Java 1.4). J2ME has been dead for more than half a decade and we have Android to thank for that. Good riddance.

spullara 12y ago
I'm not sure where you get your information about this, but J2ME 8 was released alongside Java 8: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/embedded/overview/javame/java-embedded-system-requirements-359229.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/embedded/overview/jav...
- biafra 12y ago
  No invokedynamic though :-) https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=360 https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=360 Also missing: Reflection Serialization Lambda expressions (JSR 335) JNI and application native code User-defined class loaders Full annotations support (Runtime annotations) Thread groups and demon threads Full Math APIs (with BigDecimals) Concurrency utilities Full security APIs Full collection APIs (Sorted collection classes) Source: http://docs.oracle.com/javame/config/cldc/opt-pkgs/api/cldc/api/doc-files/CLDCscope.html http://docs.oracle.com/javame/config/cldc/opt-pkgs/api/cldc/...
pjmlp 12y ago
J2ME has been updated to Java 8 and outside the mobile world is used a lot in embedded industrial deployments.