Java

[Santa]

A JavaVM is desperately needed. And I'm not talking about J2ME stuff like in AmigaDE/AmigaAnywhere/... .
With an uptodate JavaVM (J2SE 1.4.n) we would instantly get lots of applications from the Java domain for 'free'.
There are Office suites, all kind of IDEs, games, graphics and sounds utils ... you name it.

It would be a big mistake (tm) not to have a full Java implementation on the Amiga.

But, this is going to be a huge project.  Not a one man show.  

Regards,
Santa

[Santa]

It's no secret that the Amiga market dried out quite a bit compared to 1990. We still have a couple of good apps and games, but some areas are a pity.
We are in difficult times (I wouldn't say hopeless).
There is not much acceptance for our platform of choice. The platform can barely feed the remaining developers. This is no selfcontaining situation.
What we need is a bigger community buying apps and spreading the name further.
To get a bigger community it would help to have more apps and games so a bigger number of people can satisfy there computing needs with an Amiga.
Porting Java SE 1.4 over to Amiga would allow a huge stack of apps to run on Amiga.
I'd prefer native applications on Amiga anyday. But this will take more time and time is nothing we have plenty of.

Java applications don't suck performancewise in general. It's bad coding style, which has most impact on speed. I've been working on a number of commercial Java projects and with a proper design speed is not an issue.

Regards,
Santa