On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 08:32:37PM -0800, Amol Kulkarni wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a student at the University of Southern California. As part of a
> research project, I've been given the job of trying to port java on to
> uclinux.
>
> I don't know much about java, so I would be really grateful if you could
> give me some guidelines/pointers about how to proceed with this.
Step 1: Learn Java. There are many books on the market to help, and Java
is available to run on many different architectures. This list is not a
good place to ask for help in that area (it's not about beginning Java),
but you might consider using the comp.lang.java.help newsgroup for that.
Step 2: Decide which implementation of Java you want to port. If you
want to port the Sun Java Development Kit (JDK), you'll need to get a
license from Sun, and you face a huge and difficult project. On the
other hand, if you're willing to port some other implementation, an
excellent choice would be the free Kaffe product (http://www.kaffe.org),
which will probably port quite easily. Let me add that I doubt the JDK
code is well-suited to a constrained environment like uClinux, and a
port based on Kaffe is much more likely to be possible.
The Blackdown organization, the group behind this mailing list, is
responsible for the port of the Sun JDK to i386 Linux (and a few other
Linux platforms). If you really want to port the Sun code, you'll do
well to spend some time with the mailing list archives at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/java-linux@java.blackdown.org/
where you'll learn something about the difficulties faced porting that
code.
Nathan
> Thanks in advance!
> Amol
>
>
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