more questions on Smalltalk JVM

Joseph Graham jgraham at majikoz.com
Wed Apr 6 18:58:08 UTC 2005


I am new to this mailing list so I am not up to speed on discussions
about this product so far.  I have been recently looking at Smalltalk
JVM because if I had the skills I would love to implement something like
this. 
My questions are as follows:

Q. Is Smalltalk JVM going to be open source at some point?

Q. How do you embed the interpreter in another Java application?

Q. Are there Java (or .net) APIs available for programmatically managing
the runtime?  For example, would it be possible to manipulate the
runtime such that for those aggressive enough to be able to develop an
eclipse plugin for this VM?  This means being able to look at the
classes in the image, send messages to the transcript instance etc..

Most of my concerns are associated with extensibility issues like the
ones above.  I was wondering about the java compatibility but those
questions were sort of answered earlier.

Thanks




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