Java for the Amiga (redux).

[EDanaII]

Has anyone consider this for AmigaOS? The GNU Compiler for the Java (http://gcc.gnu.org/java/).

Just curious.

I assume it would be no small effort, but I wonder if it's also doable.

Ed.

[Darth_X]

I've mentioned this before ;-)

[EDanaII]

Did anyone draw any conclusions about it?

[HenryCase]

As far as I know, the main reason we don't have Java on the Amiga already is that it is a huge effort to port the libraries. A compiler needs the libraries to do any useful work. Port the libraries and everything else should fall into place fairly quickly, even if the first version isn't perfect.

[motorollin]

Wouldn't it be unbearably slow?

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moto

[LoadWB]

ISTR Holger Kruse, of Miami fame, having some kind of Java engine available a while back. Of course, there was an X-Windows server available as well. What ever happened to either of those?

[EDanaII]

It's a compiler, Moto, so it's only as slow as the system running it. :)

Ed.

[motorollin]

Oh ok. I thought it was a Java VM.

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moto