I pointed this out before on this list, but Eric Arseneau and Andrew Brault
had built PocketJava on PocketSmalltalk for the Palm Pilot.  Thier
implementation translated Java byte codes to Smalltalk byte codes rather
than using dual VM like ST/X.

You can find some slides from Smalltalk Solutions'99 on PocketSmalltalk and
PocketJava at http://www.pocketsmalltalk.com/Solutions99/index.htm  I'm not
sure if work is proceeding on PocketJava given the big players are working
on similar products, but PocketSmalltalk is open source and perhaps the
PocketJava source is also available.  I'm guessing a port to Squeak is
possible if you really must have Java in Squeak (sigh).

	Shaun


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bert Freudenberg [mailto:bert at isgnw.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De]
> Sent: December 10, 1999 2:18 AM
> To: Giovanni Giorgi
> Cc: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: A Crazy Idea (?)
>
>
> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Giovanni Giorgi wrote:
>
> > So we can have Java interpreted by a (very very special)
> Smalltalk VM.
> > IF this can be done and is right (I ask to you an opinion)
>
> Not that crazy at all - it can be done and is has been done.
> Have a look
> at how Smalltalk/X does it at
> http://www.exept.de/en/stja97.html. Also,
> you might be interested in Bistro
> (http://www.jps.net/nikboyd/papers/bistro/bistro.htm).
>
>   -Bert-
>