We don't compile JVM at runtime at all, so I suppose it should mostly just work.

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Jim Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'll address Jython: we plan support for Android in our 2.5.1 release.
> Supporting Android is similar to supporting unsigned applets: we either
> compile Python code in advance to Java bytecode, or compile it on the fly to
> Python bytecode (PBC) and execute with our PBC VM (just a straight port of
> ceval.c). Any class proxies also need to be compiled to Java bytecode in
> advance too, although we could support Java dynamic proxies for interface
> inheritance only (a significant but hopefully workable restriction, given
> that we prefer interfaces in Java, but of course only impacts Java
> integration). Packaging for Dalvik or as applet then becomes similar to say
> packaging a WAR file for Django or Pylons.
> The only missing pieces are support for the deployment piece, dynamic
> proxies, and a PBC compiler, all of which we have started work on, but put
> on hold for getting 2.5.0 out.
> - Jim
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Laura Creighton <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> This showed up on another list I read.
>>
>> ------- Forwarded Message
>>
>> From: Roland Orre <[email protected]>
>> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:05:15 +0200
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Cafe] android g1
>> X-BeenThere: [email protected]
>>
>> I also have a Google G1 now with a developers account.
>> It is cool to have a telephone which I can ssh from and where I can
>> set up an ftp server.
>>
>> I intended to start porting some applications like some HP calculator
>> (I have HP42S and HP48GX), and probably openssl, openssh and a vpn
>> client.
>>
>> One tricky aspect with the Android system is that it has it's own
>> noncompatible VM which is the Dalvik virtual machine, which shold be
>> more memory efficient than the standard JVM. This JVM is written by
>> Dan Bornstein and released with Apache license v2.
>>
>> The tricky thing is that this gets around  Sun's grip on the JVM but
>> also implies that platform independent code is no longer platform
>> independent...
>>
>> JVM bytecode can be converted to DalvikVM code though, but there is no
>> just in time compiler for JVM to DalvikVM yet though, so e.g. Jython
>> is not really nice implemented on it yet, although there is jythonroid
>> http://code.google.com/p/jythonroid/
>>
>> The current ARM chip is claimed to have hardware support for JVM
>> though, even though Android should not be platform dependent of
>> course.
>>
>> Any opinion about the JVM - DalvikVM issue?
>>
>> /Roland
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 08:39, Ivan F. Villanueva B. <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > [moved to c...@]
>> >
>> > El Tue, Apr 21, 2009 11:28:36PM +0200, Alberto Barrionuevo escribió:
>> >> On Tuesday 21 April 2009 14:05:42 Ivan F. Villanueva B. wrote:
>> >> > At the moment Google has his own modified implementation of a JRE for
>> >> > his
>> >> > operating system Android. Maybe interesting to check if they call it
>> >> > Java
>> >> > and related issues.
>> >> >
>> >> > Anyway, It seems the mobile Market will boom soon, with all the
>> >> > Internet
>> >> > applications, and Java will be very important again. I have an
>> >> > Android G1
>> >> > mobile phone myself, and it is like a device coming from the future.
>> >> > Applications are programed in the Google JRE. I'm just testing it,
>> >> > and you
>> >> > have: - no need for backups, everything is synchronized with your
>> >> > Google
>> >> > account (which is of course not nice for privacy issues, but it works
>> >> > just
>> >> > without doing anything) - ssh, irc, jabber, email, facebook, twitter,
>> >> > rss,
>> >> > etc. Even with notifications. - google maps, youtube, music, Internet
>> >> > radio, etc.
>> >> >     - translations from among others google
>> >> >     - webpages like, wikipedia, etc.
>> >> >
>> >> > No Voice over IP though, but I there is a hack to get root access on
>> >> > the
>> >> > phone.
>> >>
>> >> And you can install Debian on it. We are testing this in OPENTIA right
>> >> now...
>> >
>> > Please share the results
>> >
>> > --
>> > Iván F. Villanueva B.
>> >
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