Micro JVM

[psiegel]

Ok, I've hijacked too many different threads trying to ask Cas questions about this that I can't even remember myself where to look for it.  I apologize to the originators of the following threads:

http://www.puppygames.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=81&highlight=
http://www.puppygames.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=71&start=15

So, I figured I'd start a new thread so pester Cas in.  Plus, this topic looked so nice and empty, I had to trample it with a new post!

Anyway, trying to get on topic.  Cas, when you hear anything from Sun about possibly getting a license to distribute a stripped down JVM (as mentioned in the above links), please post here and let me know.  Thanks!

Paul

[princec]

Of course Everyone will know pretty much immediately something happens on this front I'm sure!

Cas

[Zane]

Hey Cas,
Is this something you've already written or something you've already written?

[princec]

I've not "written" anything but I have deleted nearly everything in rt.jar that's not needed to load a JVM and run main(). It shrank down to 2.5Mb or something. I could have gotten a lot more stuff thrown out but the Sun JVMs anr rt classes have some irritating interdependencies.

All I want is a bytecode execution engine really that can load and run classes from a jar.

Cas

[Zane]

I see...
So, what is wrong with that?
Thought I saw something about Sun not going along with it for distro...??

I did a Google search of Open Source Java Virtual Machine and found a lot of interesting links...

If Sun won't play ball maybe there are some alternatives?
Just a thought.

[princec]

Well, right about now - there's Jet. And Jet really is the dog's bollocks. It's proper fast but a little awkward to use.

Cas

[Zane]

Oh, ok, that's what the Jet postings were about.
Cool.

And here I thought you were refering to the MS Access Database engine (joke)

-D