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From: mg@dsd.camb.inmet.com (Mitch Gart)
Subject: Re: Java vs Ada 95 (Was Re: Once again,
 Ada absent from DoD SBIR solicitation)
Date: 1996/10/14
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: Jon asks

: "Do any Java "the language" implementations exsit which do not target
: the JVM?  I don't know of any, but maybe there are?  If not, this GC
: argument is just irrelevant.  If Java means JVM, and you want that
: (for whatever reason) then using Ada in this context will also give
: you GC simply because the Ada->J implementations have GC (by using the
: JVM GC - just like the JTL impl does)"

Java is also supposed to be usable for embedded systems.  From what I know 
of the JVM it is implementatble in embedded systems with no major problems, 
except for GC.  IMHO the Java community is in a bit of a bind because:

- the language and its libraries are designed assuming that the runtime has GC

- GC is difficult in embedded systems for many reasons

In the next few months I will be very interested to see how this problem is
addressed.

- Mitch Gart