First question:

I'm trying to compile Apache Axis2c for the Nokia N9 (or any LGPL or permissive licensing tool that allows me to do XML data binding).

I do believe I have successfully cross compiled this using scratchbox. However even after reading the tutorials I am a little clueless on Scratchbox (I installed i using the python installer file from Nokia).

My questions is how does scratchbox work? As I understand it's a sandboxed environment where you change 'profiles' between host and target(s) and then compile apps for the target environment, but how can it emulate the ARM cpu? Specifically what is CPU Transparency?