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by Jim White :: Rate this Message:

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James Williams wrote:

> Another problem other than the classloaders is all the reflection
> classes that Groovy needs to compile(most reside in rt.jar). I think the
> only way to get Groovy working would be to rip out all the dynamic
> classes and MOP. The result would be a language that is not really Groovy.

Yeah, Android is actually a whole lot like GWT in terms of how it works
in relation to Java.  So Groovy as we know it currently isn't practical.

But that points to something a bit different that is possible which is
targeting Android from GWT so that a GWT-powered webapp could easily
have an Android version.

There have been some folks trying to use Groovy and GWT together.

http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GRAILS/GWT+Plugin

http://blogs.pathf.com/agileajax/gwt/index.html

http://www.ayokasystems.com/googlewebtoolkit.html

Jim

> On Jan 23, 2008 11:37 AM, tugwilson <tug@...
> <mailto:tug@...>> wrote:
>
>     Tahir Akhtar wrote:
>      >
>      > Hi,
>      > I found this through google.
>      >
>     http://www.jameswilliams.be/blog/entry/38;jsessionid=7711F31E5A4CE248E63009221DFE6117
>      >
>      > Someone got a better solution?
>      >
>
>     As i understand it, the Android JVM does not use the normal JVM
>     bytecodes.
>     There is a preprocessor which converts class files produced by the Java
>     compiler into the format used by Android (the Android bytecodes use a
>     register rather than a stack architecture).
> ...



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