Eric Arseneau also presented the paper "Pocket Java" at the OOPSLA '99
VM Workshop - http://www.squeak.org/oopsla99_vmworkshop/

-- Dwight


"Shaun M. Smith" wrote:
> 
> 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-
> >