Porting Squeak to Java VM

Bert Freudenberg bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de
Tue Nov 12 17:05:06 UTC 2002


On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 tblanchard at mac.com wrote:

> What might be more entertaining is to write a java class loader in 
> squeak that loaded a java class definition (bytecodes) and translated 
> it into an equivalent Squeak class (loading and translating all 
> dependent classes as well). 

The Smalltalk/X VM can execute Java bytecode directly. I think there was a
bit in the compiled method header saying which instruction set to use. You 
could call Java methods from ST and vice versa

-- Bert




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