MorphOS Java VM in the Works

[AmiGR]

Sorry toRus, but a Java port *will* happen.
This is not a hobby low cost project by anyone
anymore. It's a job of a professional developer.
Development of/for MorphOS happens in a very
organised manner now, you would be surprised
by the MDC.

[Johan Samuelsson]

Coool! That would upen up some doors.. IF i would run morphos.. which i cant on my amigaOne..
Any chanse to see this ported to AmigaOS?

[toRus]

What I'm saying is that it takes more than one or two professional developer to develop a proper Java VM.

Nevertheless, Kaffe is not a licensed VM. It is more of a development project than a deployment solution. As a matter of fact an early version exists for AmigaOS that worked with Jikes.
Kaffe lacks too many features of a full Java VM and being unlicensed it is more vulnerable to future changes. Of course, Sun is doing a good job managing Java and JCP is one of the best things in modern computing but there can't be promises for unlicensed VMs.

Still, it's good to have even a port of Kaffe but let's not fool people telling that MorphOS will have java so we can run any java program on it.

[AmiGR]

First of all, it's not a Kaffe port and the whole point
is that there will be more than one professinal
developer. The port was started by Dr. Allan Havemose, you already know him, AmigaOS
project engineer. It continued with the current
developer after the hardware reached a state
that anyone can work on it. There *IS* work going
on.