JVM for PocketPC

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timo.nentwig@gmail.com - 02 Apr 2006 18:11 GMT

Hi!

Turns out to be quite hard to find a JVM for a PocketPC. So far I found
Mysaifu JVM which is free but also uselessly slow. There seem to be a
few commercial JVM such as CrE-ME. Well, isn't there any usable free
(or at least trial) JVM for PocketPC?

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Roedy Green - 02 Apr 2006 18:59 GMT

On 2 Apr 2006 10:11:30 -0700, "timo.nentwig@gmail.com"
<timo.nentwig@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>Turns out to be quite hard to find a JVM for a PocketPC. So far I found
>Mysaifu JVM which is free but also uselessly slow. There seem to be a
>few commercial JVM such as CrE-ME. Well, isn't there any usable free
>(or at least trial) JVM for PocketPC?

To work in such a device, the JVM would have to live primarily in
flash ROM. Is that the way you ran MySaifu?

After the way Microsoft f.cked over Java in the browser, I can see
why people are gun shy of doing Java development on the MS PocketPC
platform.

In the handheld/cellphone world people can afford to buy a device just
to run one program. Generic address books will be a dime a dozen. The
future belongs to machines that can run the specialised app the
customer wants. Given how fragmented the market is, Java has a strong
advantage for developers in covering the most hardware and for getting
an app to market first.

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Sandor Spruit - 02 Apr 2006 20:26 GMT

> On 2 Apr 2006 10:11:30 -0700, "timo.nentwig@gmail.com"
> <timo.nentwig@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
[quoted text clipped - 18 lines]
> advantage for developers in covering the most hardware and for getting
> an app to market first.

IBM's J9? I've read it has not been updated for a while, but I've
seen it running quite nicely on WM5. Not free, but cheap; couple
of dollars per device.

HTH,
Sandor

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