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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: Wilse on October 02, 2011, 12:06:14 PM

Title: Java on OS4?
Post by: Wilse on October 02, 2011, 12:06:14 PM

As above.

Anyone know if it's possible?

-EDIT-

or MorphOS.



cheers,

Title: Re: Java on OS4?
Post by: nicholas on October 02, 2011, 12:22:21 PM

Quote from: Wilse;662185

As above.

Anyone know if it's possible?

-EDIT-

or MorphOS.



cheers,

Not likely.

Perhaps someone might try porting JamVM and GNU/Classpath.

http://jamvm.sourceforge.net/

Title: Re: Java on OS4?
Post by: phoenixkonsole on October 02, 2011, 12:35:30 PM

http://code.google.com/p/jamiga2/

i made a call for AROS/Amiga/MorphOS bounties to speed up things but got no feedback and later lost my interest.

Title: Re: Java on OS4?
Post by: Karlos on October 02, 2011, 12:44:41 PM

Quote from: Wilse;662185

As above.

Anyone know if it's possible?

-EDIT-

or MorphOS.



cheers,

There are two things to implementing Java. Firstly you need to implement the virtual machine itself. There is at least one example of this on OS3.x that I recall, a port of kaffe if I'm, not mistaken. I can remember playing with it ages ago - there's a reasonable chance it would work on OS4/MOS under emulation, though I imagine an emulated VM would potentially be very slow.

The second, and in some respects the more difficult task, is the runtime and associated class libraries, more pertinently the dependencies for the native interface.

Title: Re: Java on OS4?
Post by: Karlos on October 02, 2011, 12:48:47 PM

Quote from: nicholas;662186

Not likely.

Perhaps someone might try porting JamVM and GNU/Classpath.

http://jamvm.sourceforge.net/

That looks quite interesting, especially considering that PowerPC is one of the main targets.

I might have to have a peek at it.

Title: Re: Java on OS4?
Post by: Wilse on October 02, 2011, 12:48:47 PM

Thanks for the replies folks.