Didn't Linux 2.0.x have Java support built in as a module or something?
I haven't
time to look just now but seem to remember this being mentioned in the
on-line
documentation when I installed RedHat Linux 5.0 last year.
Mark Foley
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Stockwell
> Sent: Friday, 30 April 1999 0:50
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: JVM as Servlet Engine
>
> I think you are thinking of something like KaffeOS
> http://www.cs.utah.edu/~gback/defense/.
>
> I've often wondered why OS vendors, especially Microsoft, are not
> putting
> Java support right into existing operating systems (or maybe they are
> and I
> haven't noticed it). In this way Java classes can be treated like
> dynamically linked libraries (aka shared objects) and shared across
> processes, significantly reducing resource requirements and decreasing
> startup times on systems that are running multiple Java processes.
>
> <good-natured-flame-bait>
> I think Microsoft should have realized a long time ago that Java was
> not
> "pollutable", that MS can't lure developers away from Java, that MS
> has to
> give users a reason to use Wintel machines to run Java. If I were MS
> I
> would have put compatible Java right into the OS, making it possible
> to use
> Wintel machines to run lots of server-side Java apps much better than
> any
> VM. Then I'd be real slow in releasing upgrades to the built-in Java,
> thus
> stunting it's growth. Instead, by abandoning Java, MS is drawing a
> line in
> the sand, and is on the wrong side of that line.
> </good-natured-flame-bait>
>
> ted stockwell
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Venkatesh Kumar A G [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 29, 1999 5:24 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: JVM as Servlet Engine
> >
> > Hi,
> > Off late lot of javapps have started trickling down. This means we
> need
> > to
> > have a copy of JRE
> > or JVM.
> >
> > Why cannot sun come up with something like this,
> > A JVM running , when an app is launched it runs as a process and
> > several
> > other apps also
> > running in diff process (need not be threads). This increases the
> startup
> > time and
> > reduces the resources reqd for each app.
> >
> > A similar kindda system is present with Servlets . Why not go for
> the
> > JVM
> > ?
> >
> > I had seen some body try doing this but I forgot the site. Do not
> know
> > whether a third party
> > implementaion will be robust. Also care should be taken for not
> crashing
> > the whole JVM
> > when some app misbehaves.
> >
> > Please comment on This!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Venkatesh
> >
> >
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