>IBM also released the AIX port of JDK 1.3
<speculation>
There's a couple of things that have me wondering why IBM does not
come out with a port of their JDK for LinuxPPC:
1) IBM makes PPC chips.
2) IBM recently released a spec for a dual-processing PPC motherboard
which is being manufactured by at least one company now, and it runs
LinuxPPC.
2.5) LinuxPPC already runs on their RS/6000 platform.
3) IBM already has JDK (plus a good JIT) developed for the PPC
platform, for AIX.
4) A high performance, stable JDK+JIT for LinuxPPC would likely sell
more IBM hardware, either in the form of RS/6000 machines, or 3rd
party motherboards.
Right now, the Linux PPC platform is stuck without a Java2 JDK that
includes a JIT and that makes it just about useless for
enterprise-style Java service systems, such as servlets. Metrowerks
released a JIT that works with the Blackdown JDK 1.1.8, but there
isn't one for 1.2.2 or 1.3 yet and Metrowerks hasn't given any
indication one way or another as to if they plan to release another
one in the future.
</speculation>
I actually just had a conversation with Kevin Hendricks, who did the
original port of the blackdown JDK to PPC, and he's currently looking
for people to help out with the PPC port of Java. He's especially
looking for anyone with knowledge of PPC assembly, since he's
currently trying to port sunwjit to PPC and is looking to perhaps try
to port the Borland/Inprise JIT and possibly HotSpot as well, but
he's currently working alone. Sadly, I have no experience or skill
with such projects as compilers and am therefore of little help to
his effort. He's asked that anybody who thinks they can help contact
him. His email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Avi Cherry
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