Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:58:57 +0200 | From | Jacek Luczak <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Writing Solaris Device Drivers in Java |
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Peter Zijlstra pisze: > On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 10:14 +0800, Peter Teoh wrote: >> Interesting read: >> >> http://research.sun.com/techrep/2006/smli_tr-2006-156.pdf >> >> Personal comments: >> >> Since KVM and Xen/OpenVZ etc other virtual machines are beginning to pop >> up - I don't see why it inhibits (in spite of the many initial >> difficulties as mentioned in the paper) the growth of using Java for >> device drivers development. Contrast it against udev - esp in terms of >> usability/supportability/extensibility etc. udev is a Linux thing, >> whereas Java is at industry level. If everyone write applications >> device drivers using Java (minus the extreme hardware arch specific >> stuff, but supports all the low level protocol specific stuff like >> TCP/IP, NFS, USB etc) then I think it has potential to compete against C
Java? Compete against C? Don't scare embedded devs.
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