11-05-2008, 02:08 PM
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 Re: Porting JVM
kashyap wrote:
> Has anyone considered JNODE for this? I has explored it a long time
> ago - its basically a complete OS built in JAVA - ofcourse it has a
> JVM written in Java as well!!!...This could potentially be an easier
> port!
Exactly why would this be _easier_? From a quick glance, all I can say
about the project is that it looks as if everything is in Java bytecode
except for the nano-kernel and a few architecture-specific classes.
From the site: "After the bootstrapper code, we're running plain java
code.". So, JNode's java interpreter/JIT compiler/whatever is running on
bare hardware, not as a process. JNode's JVM runs on top of this, as pure
Java. What we need for MINIX is a program that runs as a user process and
functions as an intermediary between a Java bytecode program and MINIX. I
could be missing something here, but I don't think JNode will be useful in
the effort to get Minix a working JVM.
Regards,
Jens
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