Amiga JAVA

gulliver · 20 June 2010, 12:37

Today I was clearing my Amiga software collection, burning a few DVDs, throwing some floppies, just sorting that Amiga software mess that I have been accumulating over all these decades.
In an old tape archive I found what appears to be two early (alpha/beta phase) Amiga JAVA compilers named Jikes and Kaffe.

So the questions are:

Are they of practical use?
I seem to have the sources of Jikes, is this good enough for something?

I remember back in the day, I used to download eveything I could, without really checking if it was really usefull.

gilgamesh · 20 June 2010, 13:18

Jikes is a compiler by IBM, Kaffe a VM. Both have been opensourced. As Java object code is portable, the VM is the more useful part.

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Originally Posted by gulliver

Are they of practical use?
I seem to have the sources of Jikes, is this good enough for something?

That depends on what you have in mind.

jotd · 20 June 2010, 13:41

AFAIR it's really too slow for being of any use for graphical applications, at least on classic amigas.
I don't know if gfx are supported or is this text only VM?

gulliver · 20 June 2010, 21:22

@gilgamesh
Thanks for clarifying what was what.

@jotd
I dont know if graphics are supported, I havent tried it yet, but anyway I will upload it to The Zone! so that you can try it.
BTW, if it is such a slow thing on 68k, it isnt worthwile

20 June 2010, 12:37	#1
gulliver BoingBagged Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: The South of nowhere Age: 46 Posts: 2,358	Amiga JAVA Today I was clearing my Amiga software collection, burning a few DVDs, throwing some floppies, just sorting that Amiga software mess that I have been accumulating over all these decades. In an old tape archive I found what appears to be two early (alpha/beta phase) Amiga JAVA compilers named Jikes and Kaffe. So the questions are: Are they of practical use? I seem to have the sources of Jikes, is this good enough for something? I remember back in the day, I used to download eveything I could, without really checking if it was really usefull.

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20 June 2010, 13:41	#3
jotd This cat is no more Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: FRANCE Age: 52 Posts: 8,161	AFAIR it's really too slow for being of any use for graphical applications, at least on classic amigas. I don't know if gfx are supported or is this text only VM?

20 June 2010, 21:22	#4
gulliver BoingBagged Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: The South of nowhere Age: 46 Posts: 2,358	@gilgamesh Thanks for clarifying what was what. @jotd I dont know if graphics are supported, I havent tried it yet, but anyway I will upload it to The Zone! so that you can try it. BTW, if it is such a slow thing on 68k, it isnt worthwile

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