Novell began bolstering its tool offerings a couple of years back by releasing the Java Development Kit, and now Novell is going even further, says Phil Schacter, an analyst with The Burton Group in Midvale, Utah.

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In Android, which is primarily a Java-like development environment, it solves a different problem.

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Flash did for UI what Java did for server-side development.

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You could argue that SUP already had access to a large pool of developers via its support of the popular Eclipse development platform, which supports Java and other languages.

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For decades, the government has relied on that revenue to pay for development elsewhere, especially in the overpopulated island of Java.

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The draft law also raises the question of how the government will be able to finance development in the poor and over-crowded heartland of Java if it loses a large chunk of its income to the outlying islands.

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Getjar, which started out as a way of distributing Java-based mobile games, has grown to include hosting, phone detection, development support for different models, serving and downloading.

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Java and Flash are two examples that have extended this concept into client and server side development.

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