What can you not do on the Dalvik VM (Android's VM) that you can in Sun VM?

Question

I know that you can run almost all Java in Dalvik\'s VM that you can in Java\'s VM but the limitations are not very clear. Has anyone run into any major s

Answer 1

Another thing that I guess could be added here is that Dalvik apparently does not preserve field order when listing the fields of a class using the reflection API. Now, the reflection API does not make any guarantees on it anyway (so ideally you shouldn't depend on it anyway), but most of the other VMs out there do preserve the order.