[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: SWT for Nokia's new Linux-devices?

[Bernd Lachner <blachner@xxxxxx>]

Jim Robbins schrieb:
> There are no plans that I know of either.
>
> However, if it's an x86 linux platform, finding a workable J2ME jvm might 
> not be too hard.
No, the device isn't a x86 platform. The Nokia 770 is an ARM Linux 
platform (Ti OMAP 1710). Unfortunately, the device is not delivered with 
a Java VM even though the Ti OMAP ARM Core AFAIK supports Jazelle which 
would make it a good platform for Java.

On the Maemo roadmap (http://www.maemo.org/platform/docs/roadmap.html ) 
Java bindings are on the ToDo list. Maybe there is hope, that future 
Software releases for the device includes a JVM.

With JamVM, there is also a early port of a free Java VM available. See 
http://jamvm.sourceforge.net/ It seems this JVM is only an interpreter 
and not a Jit Compiler. I don't know, if JamVM implements the JVM good 
enough to run eSWT/eRCP but maybe it would be worth a try.


> And since it's GTK based, an interested party could start with the desktop 
> GTK SWT implementation and subset
> for eSWT Core and Expanded leaving most of the work around Mobile 
> extensions.......
Indeed the GUI of the device is based on Gtk 2.6, with some extensions 
called Hildon, and X11 with Matchbox Window Manager. I think that should 
it make relatively easy to port the Linux Gtk SWT version to it and 
implement eSWT/eRCP on it, once a Java VM is available.