history of jnode

Submitted by Chaignon on Tue, 03/16/2004 - 22:35.

hello, I am spirit to make a study on OS in java and I would like to know the history of jnode. thank you

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Not much but....

Submitted by admin on Sat, 03/20/2004 - 13:20.

Click here for a short history on JNode.
Ewout

me too

Submitted by Trickkiste on Thu, 03/18/2004 - 10:45.

hi,
i am interested in the history of jnode (for my semester thesis [Studienarbeit])
the only thing i know is the date of the jnode registration at sourcefourge.net
it was 11. May 2003

Andreas

I'll try to write it down this weekend

Submitted by admin on Thu, 03/18/2004 - 19:23.

Ewout

History v/s architectural overview

Submitted by IanFerreira on Fri, 03/19/2004 - 14:38.

I am also keen to start helping with the development - but still try to gasp the whole concept, and how every thing here fits together.
It would help to have some documentation on the whole architecture. Before looking at JNode - if anybody would ask me what is required to greate a Java OS I would have answerd 'write a VM into the bootsector of a disk', I now realised there is a lot more to it than just a bootable vm.
My particular interest comes from where we (my company in Cape Town) now porting a Java application to the 'aJile' java processor board.
This processor is for all practical reasons an embedded vm. How-ever they only support a subset of the Sun's J2ME, and after reading this debacle about Sun's Java licensing, and being technical director, I think I need to make the decision now to what Java we will support - my choice is 'classpath'.
Also having a Java os, were not limited to a dedicated Java processor anymore, and could possibly develop a embedded processor board using any suitable processor compliant with JNode. Please let me know what you think about this or if I am missing some points.
I will install JNode this weekend and try to get to know and understand it better.

Regards
Ian Ferreira

Feedback

Submitted by admin on Sat, 03/20/2004 - 13:30.

I think you're right about the embedded board running any processor and a JavaOS. I think Java processors are nice, but having some kind of Risc processor is probably much faster in terms of code execution.

However I think it is only fair to warn you that JNode is still in an experimental stage. If it already fits your needs, that is great, but do not expect a full-featured OS yet.

If you want to help us port JNode to such an embedded platform, that would be great, because I think it should not be that hard to do.

Ewout

Intro into technical docs started

Submitted by admin on Sat, 03/20/2004 - 13:25.

I've started writing an introduction to the technical docs. It also contains an overview picture on the JNode components.
I hope this helps.

Ewout