Screaming Penguin

Go Big Blue! This weekend I played with IBM's Visual Age Micro Edition and, from what I saw, it is sooo very sweet. It installs (on windows) in a couple of different packages and includes runtimes and examples for several different embedded devices. (Its gotta linux install via rpms as well.) The one that I cared about was for the PalmOS and Motorola 68k. There are about 10 different little PRCs and PDBs to install that comprise the J9 VM. These all add up to ~130k. Then you add your program and voila, you got a nice java VM on yer palm. The whole package includes an IDE and several development tools, most notably a linker that strips the code to include only the necessary instructions that your app uses. If I read correctly it goes all the way down to the method level! Very nice. Any way, thought I'd share this, as I didn't know that IBM had progressed so far in this area. Goto the linked site and you can download or buy a CD with the IDE and runtimes. Note, the site is down right now, dunno why Site's back up -jeepmutt   IBM's embedded stuff