RIM Confirms Android Apps Will Run On Playbook, Through Intermediate Players 113
angry tapir writes "Research In Motion has announced that users of its PlayBook tablet will be able to run Android and Java applications. The PlayBook, which becomes available on April 19, will have two optional 'app players' that will provide run-time environments for BlackBerry Java apps and Android 2.3 apps. The players will let users download BlackBerry Java Apps and Android Apps from BlackBerry App World."
java is a success story (Score:3, Funny)
Since its introduction, it has taken the world by storm. Applications run perfectly anywhere.
Write once. Run on Mac, Windows, Linux. Works great. Threads, networking. And it is
also very secure as applications are sandboxed.
Combined with XML, RMI, JB, servlets, SWING, ACID, JVM, WORA, API, JRE, JEE,
JIT, JDK, CORBA, IIOP, JDBC, AWT, NIO, etc. it offers a powerful environment.
And it is object oriented that is OO!
And pretty much all universities teach it. Did you know even Oracle is partly written
in Java, it has improved their product tremendously! All desktop computers com
with Java preinstalled - working perfectly. And most applications these days
are also in Java - if nothing else this should prove its superiority.
Also java made everything simple. They banished unsigned types. Thread
based networking, very slim runtime, easy web applets that are everywhere
these days, everything is an Object, no memory corruption/crashes so even
a monkey can write code (you don't need to know what you're doing
to be a java programmer, isn't that great), take threads, so easy anyone
is encouraged to add them into their application. Java code is also
very easy to read but still very compact.
The creators of Java did the industry a great service. I salute them!