Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-27 Thread Doug Collinge
Oracle has developed a virtualized JVM for their various web products. It puts all the shared, read-only stuff in one layer and all the private read-write stuff in another layer. It allows each client session to have effectively their own private JVM with something like 20KB overhead per ses

Re: Fwd: Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-27 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> The problem is that the connection to the X display happens when the AWT > native library is first loaded. It's a single connection that is used > through the life of the JVM. As currently structured, the AWT won't let > you associate different objects with different X connections. It would > ta

Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-27 Thread Tony Dean
Sounds what we need is the old UNIX sticky bit put back into Linux. The sticky bit was a file attribute that told the Kernel that the application should stay in cached for some period of time after it was initially loaded. Way back when, UNIX did this and things that got hit a lot like editors (vi

Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-25 Thread noisebrain
> What is really needed is a pre-started jvm. When you start up a java > process, the jvm will fork, and the child will su to you and proceed as > normal. I don't know exactly what the jvm is doing when it is taking > all that time starting up so I don't know how useful this would be. I like t

Re: Fwd: Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-23 Thread Nathan Meyers
allen petersen wrote: > > you know, it would probably make a whole lot more sense to integrate the jvm > with something like gnome or kde rather than with the operating system itself. > that way you skip the various xdisplay problems (since you'll necessarily have > an x environment associated wi

Re: Fwd: Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-23 Thread allen petersen
you know, it would probably make a whole lot more sense to integrate the jvm with something like gnome or kde rather than with the operating system itself. that way you skip the various xdisplay problems (since you'll necessarily have an x environment associated with your session) and you don'

Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-23 Thread Joseph Shraibman
Yavor Kolarov wrote: > > Thanks to everyone who replied! > > It is clear that JVM can't be part of the kernel. Because of three main > reasons: > 1. Java is not GPL'ed > 2. the more code in the kernel the worse. Java is too big and not so stable. > You don't want different people sharing the j

Re: Fwd: Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-23 Thread Nathan Meyers
Yavor Kolarov wrote: > > There are some additional problems. > > If we have a wrapper starting all programs it has to be able to: > - open news windows and frames on a specific X terminal. ( User A running > Java application on localhost:0.0 and user B on localhost:1.0) > This raises the questio

Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-19 Thread Juergen Kreileder
> "Brett" == Brett W McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brett> On 19 Jan 2001, Juergen Kreileder wrote: >> Yes, a "simplified" implementation isn't too hard but a complete >> implementation isn't trivial. >> BTW, SCO has done this for Solaris and UnixWare: >> http://www.sco

Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-19 Thread Andreas Rueckert
Hi! On Fre, 19 Jan 2001 Yavor Kolarov wrote: > Thanks to everyone who replied! > > It is clear that JVM can't be part of the kernel. Because of three main > reasons: > 1. Java is not GPL'ed > 2. the more code in the kernel the worse. Java is too big and not so stable. Sorry, the JOS mailing is

Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-19 Thread Yavor Kolarov
Thanks to everyone who replied! It is clear that JVM can't be part of the kernel. Because of three main reasons: 1. Java is not GPL'ed 2. the more code in the kernel the worse. Java is too big and not so stable. Here is one possible design: 1. At boot time a wrapper is started in the user spac

Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-19 Thread Andreas Rueckert
Hi! On Fre, 19 Jan 2001 Bruno Randolf wrote: > i understand the reluctance of the linux community to use java because > of licencing problems, but on the other hand i think it would be really > interresting to integrate java and linux. Don't forget that the GNU utils are a huge part of Li

Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-19 Thread Paul Mclachlan
At 21:58 01 Jan 2001 +0200, Yavor Kolarov wrote: > Recently an interesting question crossed my mind - is there a project for > "emedding" JRE as part of Linux system. By embedding I mean starting it at > system boot or the first time it's needed and keep it running, so that when > the user sta

Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-19 Thread Bruno Randolf
hello! i also thought of a similar thing - would'nt it be cool to have java wrappers around the linux kernel and the system calls - so that you can access them in java? also a java shell would be nice (java instead of shell-scripts!). i understand the reluctance of the linux community to use jav

Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-19 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On 19 Jan 2001, Juergen Kreileder wrote: > Yes, a "simplified" implementation isn't too hard but a complete > implementation isn't trivial. > BTW, SCO has done this for Solaris and UnixWare: > http://www.sco.com/10xmore/ But I'm sure they have done it under license and NDA. It's a different sto

Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-19 Thread Juergen Kreileder
> "Nathan" == Nathan Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nathan> "Brett W. McCoy" wrote: >> >> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Yavor Kolarov wrote: >> >> > Recently an interesting question crossed my mind - is there a >> > project for "emedding" JRE as part of Linux system. By

Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-19 Thread Andreas Rueckert
Hi! On Don, 18 Jan 2001 Brett W. McCoy wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Yavor Kolarov wrote: > > > Recently an interesting question crossed my mind - is there a project for > > "emedding" JRE as part of Linux system. By embedding I mean starting it at > > system boot or the first time it's needed a

Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-18 Thread Nathan Meyers
"Brett W. McCoy" wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Yavor Kolarov wrote: > > > Recently an interesting question crossed my mind - is there a project for > > "emedding" JRE as part of Linux system. By embedding I mean starting it at > > system boot or the first time it's needed and keep it running,

Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-18 Thread Joseph Shraibman
Until Sun agress to release java under the gpl, it ain't gonna happen. There isn't even a 1.2 compatible free jvm. Yavor Kolarov wrote: > > Hello > > Recently an interesting question crossed my mind - is there a project for > "emedding" JRE as part of Linux system. By embedding I mean starting

Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-18 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Yavor Kolarov wrote: > Recently an interesting question crossed my mind - is there a project for > "emedding" JRE as part of Linux system. By embedding I mean starting it at > system boot or the first time it's needed and keep it running, so that when > the user starts an Jav

Re: JRE as part of Linux

2001-01-18 Thread David Brownell
http://gcc.gnu.org/ ... look at the Java support if you want startup times that are as good as native code. (And don't need Swing... GTK integration is in the works though.) GCC 3.0 includes a Java compiler, GCJ. It's in code slush now, soon to branch; "hope to release by the end of Q1 2001".