On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Andy Waddell wrote:
> 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?
I'd suggest you take a look at Kaffe (www.kaffe.org), and possibly get in
touch with Transvirtual. Transvirtual has a special "embedded" version of
Kaffe available, including AWT/Swing support.
Vidar Hokstad
