Re: [arch] Modular JVM component diagram

2005-08-19 Thread Tom
Joerg, thanks for your link, seems like APR is the way to go. Just one more thing: Instead of just having an abstraction layer, would it be possible to give our solution a little finer granularity right from the start ? E.g. define a part of this layer so that only this part is required on a

Re: [arch] VM/Classlibrary Interface (take 2)

2005-08-19 Thread Tim Ellison
Weldon Washburn wrote: > On 7/11/05, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Recently, within IBM, we have been defining the interface between IBM's >>class library and the J9 VM. We deliberately haven't looked at the GNU >>Classpath/VM interface specification. >> >>The principal goals are to

Re: [arch] VM/Classlibrary Interface (take 2)

2005-08-19 Thread Weldon Washburn
On 7/11/05, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Recently, within IBM, we have been defining the interface between IBM's > class library and the J9 VM. We deliberately haven't looked at the GNU > Classpath/VM interface specification. > > The principal goals are to enable the class libraries t

Re: [arch] VM/Classlibrary Interface (take 2)

2005-08-19 Thread Weldon Washburn
On 7/13/05, Graeme Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > During the development of J9 we found that centralizing VM and core class > library interfaces to the operating system (and keeping these interfaces > thin) reduces the porting effort. If there is sufficient interest I can > follow up with a

Re: [legal] update on legal framework

2005-08-19 Thread Mladen Turk
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/auth_cont_quest.html Please take a look and run through it yourself - see where there are barbs, warts and stumbles :) We want to make this as clean and easy as possible while giving us the best protection possible. Excellen

Re: [arch] Modular JVM component diagram

2005-08-19 Thread Mladen Turk
Tom wrote: Hi I like the APR idea, but still would like to evaluate how feasible it will be to port whatever we chose as the OAL to various embedded platforms, in particular ARM, PowerPC and MIPS. Right now, the APR runs on WindowsCE platforms regardless of CPU. Of course some things are n

Re: [arch] Modular JVM component diagram

2005-08-19 Thread Joerg Wendland
*unlurk* Hi, On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 12:15:40AM -0700, Tom wrote: > I like the APR idea, but still would like to evaluate how feasible it > will be to port whatever we chose as the OAL to various embedded > platforms, in particular ARM, PowerPC and MIPS. Es you can for example see at [0] APR c

Re: [arch] Modular JVM component diagram

2005-08-19 Thread Tom
Hi Thanks, great overview, Ricardo! In regards to APR as a candidate for the OS Abstraction Layer (OAL) project: I like the APR idea, but still would like to evaluate how feasible it will be to port whatever we chose as the OAL to various embedded platforms, in particular ARM, PowerPC and MI