Re:EFF Stands With Innovative Developers in the Wake of Orac...
by wtallis on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @07:09PM
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> " Why did Google even call them java.XXXXXXX.XXXX when they could have been Android.XXX.XXX, etc."
That wouldn't be implementing the Java APIs any more, as evidenced by the fact that no code relying on the Java APIs would be able to compile against your hypothetical Android standard library. By the Java language's own definition, changing the package and class names makes it a different API.
That wouldn't be implementing the Java APIs any more, as evidenced by the fact that no code relying on the Java APIs would be able to compile against your hypothetical Android standard library. By the Java language's own definition, changing the package and class names makes it a different API.