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From: jmarten@ibm.net (Jean-Marten Marchi)
Subject: Re: Java/embedded
Date: 1999/05/16
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On Wed, 5 May 1999 23:37:44 +0300, Ehud Lamm <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
wrote:

>See http://www.ibm.com/embedded/ for IBM tools for "pervasive" computing.
>Centered arround Java of course.
>
>Ehud Lamm     mslamm@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il

Thinking to it, there's something i don't understand with Java
embedded. 

 You have a remote machine with a JVM running, fine. 

Since the applets you download on this remote machine are only running
inside the JVM, what can they really do, except stealing CPU cycles ? 

At one time or another, you have to interact with the remote machine,
thus breaking the portability of your applet. In this case, what is
the JVM good for ?