nanogui: Re: [linuxce-devel] RE: MicroWindows, Java and desktop
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Re: [linuxce-devel] RE: MicroWindows, Java and desktop
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2 Mar 2000 23:22:04 -0000
Message-Id: <m12QYgZ-000dd2C@debian>
Sun's proposed a bit of vaporware called J2ME, or Java 2 Micro Edition which
seems to be a set of API's for various kinds of small devices. Details are
conspicuously absent.
Sun has released something really remarkable, the kvm, which is a
minaturized Java virtual machine which fits easily in a palm pilot. Speed is
about as good as first-generation JVMs, which means about as good as
languages such as Perl and Python. So far as I know, kvm has only been
ported to the palm, I bet Sun will license you the code if you pay them $$,
but I doubt we'll get it for free.
Some features are missing from kvm, and kvm wouldn't use the AWT for
user-interface, it would use something else.
For now I wouldn't get so excited about J2ME until I see some details.
