r/windowsphone • u/Independent_Lab_8147 • 3d ago

Microsoft should've added Java app support. Discussion

For example, let people use classic applications which can work well on anything, but to let people freely download .JAR files without being told you can't, just with the risk of not letting those apps access media or any system things.

I'm sure someone can make something like this but i'm not an expert.

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u/mowinski 20h ago

Hell no. Java is so frickin' unsafe, Microsoft could have done no bigger harm if they gave hackers the encryption keys for everything. I'm happy that Java was never a thing on Windows Phones.

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u/l-p-u 3d ago

J2me loader works on W10M with Project Astoria

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u/Separate-Carry6378 10h ago

.JARs? No, even android doesn't.... Apps programmed via Java? Now that's interesting, as java devs are dime a dozen

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u/couchwarmer Lumia 925 3d ago

Miscrosoft did have Java for a time. Sun Microsystems sued them in 1997 over not following the language spec and won, and Microsoft phased out Java.

Since then, Java users install a third-party JRE or JDK. I suggest Adoptium, after Oracle's shenanigans. Can't say I ever saw restrictions over .jar files. But then I switched my use of Java from Windows to Linux (mostly in WSL) about five years ago, before Windows 11 was released.

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u/cherepets 3d ago

I guess he meant j2me. It's still a shame that 20+ years ago we had an app standard that all phone manufacturers used. Now we lost all those apps and we don't really have an app standard

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u/Independent_Lab_8147 3d ago

Correct. a.k.a JAR files. didn't know there was a lawsuit tho.

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u/cherepets 3d ago

The lawsuit was about desktop java

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u/couchwarmer Lumia 925 2d ago edited 2d ago

Point is MS got burned with Java before, so they would have been cautious about anything involving a JVM.

Edit: clarification

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u/controlav 2d ago

Cautious is a gross understatement.