Re: Compiling 5.0 syntax java files

From:

Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:17:26 -0500

Message-ID:

<F6idnfNgyu06F6XanZ2dnUVZ_vWtnZ2d@comcast.com>

Philipp wrote:

Lew wrote:

JavaME is a whole different ball game. You hadn't mentioned that was
the environment before.

It's not JavaME. It's just a standard 1.3 JVM running on an embedded PC
(maybe I'm misusing the term "embedded", it's a CPU (no screen, no
keyboard etc.) in a box running the JVM).

Typically in software the term "embedded" means in a smaller, special-purpose
processor, rather than in a general-purpose computer. The usage you describe
is often called "headless".

How do you maintain that machine if it has no peripherals?

In any event, given that 1.3 is obsolete, nine years old and dog slow compared
to modern JVMs, which themselves are free of charge and much more robust, it's
hard to follow the "logic" of your client in their choice not to upgrade.

One assumes that there is no multi-threaded Java code on this dedicated
machine. If there is, then you need to convince your client to upgrade to at
least Java 5 to get the improved memory model.

--
Lew