- I just bought the playbook because the salesman told me that "for sure" the playbook would run java apps.
I am trying to run a stock streaming application (from Scotia iTrade) that requires Java to be installed on the device in order to run....my attempts so far have failed.
Is this possible on the Playbook? Just want to make sure I am not overlooking something...
Thanks,
DerekLast edited by dschaaf; 05-05-11 at 03:19 PM.
05-05-11 02:59 PMLike 0 - Not yet, but when RIM demo'ed the Playbook native email app --- it was shown to be operating within a java virtual machine. How do we know that? Look at the following video --- when he switched from email app to calender app (and later to contacts app), it was operating within the java vm called "blackberry player".
05-05-11 03:22 PMLike 0 - Honestly nobody knows --- java is going to be the LAST platform to be ready for the Playbook. Even the Android Player is going to be ready earlier.
But I do think that major Canadian banks will have Playbook support via other means because there are going to be demands by Canadian consumers --- maybe an AIR app or a native app. There are just too many blackberries in Canada --- on a per capita basis, Canadians have more blackberries than Americans --- so naturally we will see the same as well for Playbook. Secondly, RIM and QNX both being Canadian --- means that there are a lot more concentration of third party RIM and QNX consulting firms in Canada. If Scotia Bank doesn't have the QNX expertise, they can literally hire the QNX consulting firms who wrote the Highway 407 toll booth system.05-05-11 04:03 PMLike 0 - I don't think you're likely to see tablet browsers supporting Java any time soon. Even Android which is practically written in Java doesn't support Java applets.
The reason is probably because all the manufacturers get cash from their app stores, Java applets are essentially apps not from these stores so why develop that. Not only that but Java applets are becoming very rare in everyday use so its probably a development dead end.05-05-11 05:31 PMLike 0 - I read some where that According to Blackberry PlayBook Tablet review, it supports all the standard platforms and technologies, like POSIX OS, SMP, Open GL, BlackBerry 6, Web Kit, Java, Adobe Flash and AIR and etc. you will definitely enjoy nicer interface for navigating through applications. It comes with dual-core 1GHz processor and 1GB RAM which is perfect base for multitasking process. This Blackberry PlayBook Tablet is having dual camera and offers you video calling. The rear camera is a 5-megapixel shooter, while the front is 3 megapixels.05-07-11 04:38 AMLike 0
- I read some where that According to Blackberry PlayBook Tablet review, it supports all the standard platforms and technologies, like POSIX OS, SMP, Open GL, BlackBerry 6, Web Kit, Java, Adobe Flash and AIR and etc. you will definitely enjoy nicer interface for navigating through applications. It comes with dual-core 1GHz processor and 1GB RAM which is perfect base for multitasking process. This Blackberry PlayBook Tablet is having dual camera and offers you video calling. The rear camera is a 5-megapixel shooter, while the front is 3 megapixels.05-07-11 04:50 AMLike 0
- The streaming live quote of itrade does not work as indicated but the rest of the web site including the trading desk (which provides correct bid/ask/last price) does work. So in the meantime you can look at other playbook aps for real time charting and switch back to itrade for trading. (This option might actually make more sense than trying to run any full streaming page on a small screen.)11-21-11 12:03 PMLike 0
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The PlayBook can do many things, but running Java is not currently one of those things, and not something I think you'll see soon (where the definition of "soon" in the RIM world has a high degree of fluidity...).11-21-11 01:29 PMLike 0 -
- RIM initially announced that it would implement a BlackBerry Java Player. This would have let the PlayBook run BB phone apps. They are written in a modified version of the cut-down version of Java that is used on mobile devices. It seems that RIM's initial plan for native email on the PlayBook was to use the BB emall apps in this player. This player project is definitely dead, RIM made a formal announcement.
There were also early announcements, or at least statements, that a full JVM implementation (like the desktop version) would be available on the PlayBook. Apparently RIM has dropped this, too, although I don't remember a formal announcement. I've read that a JVM implementation already exists for QNX. There may be a problem with licensing this. Sun/Oracle has never licensed the full Java for mobile devices, nor released it into the public domain for mobile devices. Oracle is suing Google over Android using Java.
So it looks like the only way to use Java on the PlayBook is the modified Jave environnement used in the Android player (but Android apps are outside the "enterprise perimeter" and wil apparently only be for personal use).03-07-12 09:27 AMLike 0
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