Java inside Smalltalk

Martin Luptak mlu at whitestein.com
Fri Oct 1 07:28:03 UTC 1999


All discussions about Java and Smalltalk integration deal with running
Smalltalk programs on Java VM,
or translating ST programs into Java.
What about idea putting Java into Smalltalk. Either Java VM running in
Smalltalk, or encapsulation
Java object into Smalltalk (they could live in one space - image,
integrating their object models), or
some other kinds of emulation/integration Java in ST environment.
Doesn't someone know about projects concerning this?

Giovanni Giorgi wrote:
> Excuse me,
>     I'd like to talk about a small idea: creating a Squeak VM for Java

> Using the CCodeGenerator engine, I think would be not so difficult to
> generate a JavaCodeGenerator class for building java source code  for
the
> VM.
> We will have Squeak running in a JavaVM, perhaps a bit slowly.
> After a bit of working, we can try to integrate the java GC, JavaBeans

> and the Security concepts of Java into Squeak, generating a hybrid VM
> and the Smalltalk of the future.
>
> A lot of java-students will look with interest to a Java-based
> implementation of Smalltalk, and start to download the SqueakVM....
>
> This is only an idea. I know the efficency problem 'd be not so  tiny
and
> so I am only talking about it....
> ...someone interested?
>
> --
> // Giovanni Giorgi          e-mail:
giovanni.giorgi at mlab.disco.unimi.it





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