Sounds great Robin. So what the the problems (if any) with JikesRVM? how would one go about making it enterprise-ready (to use a well-worn cliche)?
thanks, dims On 5/12/05, Robin Garner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I hope you use C to write the VM for Harmony. > > > > The reason is, that I think, that the best is, if Harmony is nearly 100% > > compatible to Suns Java. > > > > If you write the VM in Java itself, then there existing some problems: > > 1. you need a native-code compiler (like gcj) to create it. And if Harmony > > itself is a native-code compiler it is not 100% compatible to Suns JVM. > > This isn't necessarily so. While there are bootstrapping issues, VMs like > JikesRVM compile themselves under normal operation. > > > 2. I don't know how you want to create a JNI-Interface for C, if the JVM > > is > > written in Java. > > This has been done successfully by existing Java-in-Java virtual machines. > JikesRVM is open source - you could read the code and find out how it > does it if you want :) > > cheers, > Robin > > -- Davanum Srinivas - http://webservices.apache.org/~dims/
