JAVA on PPC?

by **Cue** » Feb 21, 2003 @ 8:03pm

I think Jeode is the name...

I was more interesting in any resources.

Why people aren't really bothered with JAVA? :(

by **refractor** » Feb 21, 2003 @ 8:48pm

by **sponge** » Feb 21, 2003 @ 10:06pm

by **Bradskey** » Feb 27, 2003 @ 8:00am

Well the Jornada 560's came HP MicroChai VM, which I think was a MIDP runtime that is used by practically nobody. Sun almost ignores Pocket PC (a crappy, unoptimized beta of an outdate Personal Java spec that gets updated once every couple of years). I'm not aware of any good, fast, freely redistributable runtimes for the platform, so why is anyone going to take Java seriously for PPC development? Performance would probably not be too good anyway. Then again, Java isn't taken seriously for consumer targeted app development on the desktop either. Don't get me wrong, I was there back in the Java beta days in 95 and I was in love with the technology and still think its cool, but its visibility and usefulness as a client app development tool has suffered by poor runtime support and Sun having their head up their rear.

by **Mini Me** » Mar 3, 2003 @ 4:02am

by **Bradskey** » Mar 4, 2003 @ 8:21am

Blackdown is a Linux outfit. I think its for a Linux ARM device (There are a few).

by **Cue** » Mar 7, 2003 @ 11:16pm

by **Guest** » Mar 24, 2003 @ 5:30pm

What about Ewe?

by **sponge** » Mar 24, 2003 @ 10:05pm

Bradskey: I *believe* it works on a Linux-enabled iPaq. At minimum, I know there's a package named "java" in one of the feeds.

by **Bradskey** » Mar 25, 2003 @ 2:05am

by **Bradskey** » Mar 25, 2003 @ 2:07am

by **adde** » Mar 26, 2003 @ 5:26pm

I tried Ewe and it is very easy to get started. It has a GUI called Jewel which makes it easy to wrap the application into a single package. You can even wrap the Ewe VM into the package to create a CPU targeted EXE file. Very nice indeed.

I havn't done any actual benchmarking, but there is a compare between Ewe and pJava/Jeode on www.ewesoft.com and Ewe is much faster and tighter.

There is also SuperWaba which I havn't tried yet. Both Ewe and SuperWaba are based on Waba which is a Java clone for small devices (like cell phones).

I'll put my money on Ewe though, since it is targeted for PDA devices. (money is a figure of speach, since Ewe is free!)

by **Cratos** » Oct 12, 2003 @ 5:53pm

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