Google Java and Sun Java need to talk

At the Sun Microsystems press conference at Oracle OpenWorld, I was able to ask Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green whether developers are going to be confused by having Google do its own thing with Java, outside the umbrella of Sun's Java Community Process. Rich's answer, essentially, was that Sun was talking to Google and that the two companies were very close to having some understanding about Java that would keep things simple.

But until the two companies work things out, it's good news for Windows Mobile, which certainly would make hay out of having a big fork in widespread adoption of the Java development platform on handsets, between Sun's Java and Google's Android.

If Microsoft ever truly opened up and modernized Windows Mobile, Java might be in trouble. Microsoft's lack of effort here is Java's saving grace.