Sun's Phipps Slams App Engine's Java Support

narramissic writes "Sun Microsystems' chief open source officer, Simon Phipps, said in an April 11 blog post that Google committed a major transgression by only including support for a subset of Java classes in its App Engine development platform. 'Whether you agree with Sun policing it or not, Java compatibility has served us all very well for over a decade,' Phipps wrote. 'That includes being sure as a developer that all core classes are present on all platforms. Creating subsets of the core classes in the Java platform was forbidden for a really good reason, and it's wanton and irresponsible to casually flaunt the rules.' Phipps characterized his remarks as non-official, saying: 'This isn't something I could comment on on Sun's behalf. My personal comments come purely from my long association with Java topics.'"

Re:do their own then...

[knewter]

bahahahaha. Sun? Money?

You've not been here long, eh? :)

"Flout", not "flaunt"

[beanyk]

Grr.

Flout not Flaunt

[onkelonkel]

The word is flout not flaunt. English is harder than it looks.

Java compatibility has served us all very well for

[Gutboy]

COBOL compatibility has served us all very well for over a decade, and to develop new programming languages is wanton and irresponsible.

"Wonton", not "wanton"

[FrankDrebin]

Mmm.