Stefano Mazzocchi — Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun’s IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME.
Stefano Mazzocchi writes Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun’s IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME.
The Google Andoid guys are clever. For Android (the free and open source Google phone software) they wrote Dalvik, a Java virtual machine that uses different byte codes that Sun’s JVM. Cute.
See also this semi-related discussion by the Bug Blogger (Bug Labs) folks.