Gluon Announces Full Java 9 Mobile Initiative
Gluon has announced the Gluon VM project bringing Java 9 support to mobile developers and unlocking the availability of all OpenJDK APIs. As a full OpenJDK implementation, the company says their Gluon VM will form the basis for future releases of Gluon mobile , and will allow enterprise developers to benefit from the latest developments in Java 8 and Java 9. Launched 18 months ago, the Gluon mobile offering provides plugins for the main Java IDEs, for building Java applications for Android and iOS platforms using a single code base. According to company co-founder John Vos, Gluon Mobile abstracts out the underlying hardware, providing a common API for accessing hardware and building dynamic user interfaces. In order to execute Java code on mobile devices the device must be able to interpret Java bytecode, and therein lies the rub. Until now Gluon Mobile deployments on Android devices would bundle an Android-optimized JavaFX along with the developer’s application, which would be