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2005-11-16 , 19:11
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Would porting VM, if fully functional, allow for use of most Java apps you come across in websites?
Yes. Technically, it would depend on how much of the JVM specification was ported. But if the standard JVM is ported, then most standard Java apps should run without recompilation.

This is sometimes not true for small platforms. Sometimes, things will get stripped from the JVM (it's big now) or a platform will support only J2ME (micro edition), which has a different view of the world so that it works on things like mobile phones. Sometimes extra classes will not be ported for space reasons.

Since the 770 is ARM-based, it looks like JamVM should port easily.

-F