On Oct 22, 2008, at 3:04 PM, David Boyes wrote:
times earlier, if you want JAVA support "on VM", you should install
a
Linux guest and use the up-to-date levels on there.
Java itself is a virtual machine. Maybe a z/Java guest someday?
Would be a clever way to actually make the zAAP specialty engine
useful
to a z/VM system. Someone would have to write a Java operating system,
and I don't know if the zAAPs can actually do I/O. Still, SET MACHINE
JAVA would be interesting.
http://www.jnode.org/
Of course, it seems to assume that the thing you're running it on is
x86. Not that that's so bad if the assembler nano-kernel really is
small, but the graphical console and VESA support don't make a lot of
sense on z.
If one, however, is speculating about a pluggable backplane with
various engine types on it, well, x86 would certainly be one of those,
but you could also skip the middleman and run a Java processor.
http://www.jopdesign.com/
would be one such, although that's FPGA rather than real dedicated
hardware. Still....
Adam
