The KVM on a Handspring Prism/Platinum are not bad @ all and run much quicker with the
new chip. Im sure that when Palm runs their
new chips thing will speed up the KVM to where it can fully be used for anything
(including irda + bluetooth object exchange).
Jini in my opinion is way to bloated and XML on the client (whether using KVM or Palm
C) is the way to go.
- Jon
Michael Yam wrote:
> 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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