Hey, whatever happened to Sun's Jini? Isn't it suppose to be the "Java" for
embedded devices?
Michael Yam
www.ytechnology.com
Andy Rabagliati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:29245@palm-dev-forum...
> Java is three things.
>
> It is a language.
>
> It is a runtime VM.
>
> It is a class library.
>
> Each piece is separable, whatever Sun may have you think.
>
> KVM (the mainstream JVM for Palm) uses its own, smaller, class libraries.
>
> Java the language is great. There is nothing about it that prevents it
> running on a 'small' machine like the Palm. Java is the current language
> of choice for smartcards - which runs on the CPU and RAM embeddable
> on a credit card - a few K of ROM, a few hundred bytes of RAM.
>
> The JVMs for Palm seem slow.
>
> The Class libraries appear to be 'about right'.
>
> What I would like to see is a Java compiler, to take a program and
> class libraries for Palm and compile them to 68K machine code, like
> a C compiler. This would bypass the virual machines.
>
> Other info about Java options on Palm can be found here.
>
> http://www.ericgiguere.com/microjava/links.html Palm Java FAQ
>
> Cheers, Andy!
>
>
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