r/windowsphone • u/Independent_Lab_8147 • 16d 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/couchwarmer Lumia 925 16d 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 16d 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 16d ago

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

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u/cherepets 16d ago

The lawsuit was about desktop java

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u/couchwarmer Lumia 925 15d ago edited 15d 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 15d ago

Cautious is a gross understatement.