Has anyone out there looked at potential Java solutions for "embedded"
Linux? I use the term embedded to loosely mean Linux running in a somewhat
restricted memory environment. The Blackdown Java port seems to need
something like 20Mb if virtual memory to run anything, plus it's not
apparent that it would be easy to strip the class libraries down to a
reasonable size for a system that doesn't have a hard drive and is running
stand-alone (i.e. not mounting some large drive on a server somewhere).
Embedded Java from Sun seems to be the VM that is scalable and I think they
have reference ports for Solaris and Win32, but I'm not sure how much work
it would be to take the Solaris reference and port it to Linux. My guess
is, that it would be pretty straight forward, except perhaps the area of
threading. The Linux threading model is something I'm not too familiar
with. Is is POSIX threads?
Andy Waddell
