Re: Linux Java & the Java2 ORB, and how to use shared memory from Java

[mlorton]

> 2. Is there a Java API for using shared memory?
>    There doesn't seem to be one in JDK 1.1, but
>    is this in Java2?

I would be stunned if there were (ever) a Java API for using shared
memory directly.  There isn't one now.  A mechanism whereby the
allocators of several JVMs could draw from a pool of shared memory
would be interesting (how would you handle GC?) but, given a strong
thread model and RMI, I don't know if it would be useful.

M.