Which Java JRE? (dusting off this thred)

[Eric Smith]

Is anyone using a JRE on the freerunner?

Please advice what is possible and available.

Thanks a lot.

-- 
- Eric Smith
Rafael Campos said:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Arigead <captain.deadly at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Bernd Pru"nster wrote:
> >> Martin Jansa wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 03:06:35PM +0000, Arigead wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello all,
> >>>>     I'm working on a project and I think it'd be cool as to show off the
> >>>> project's work on a phone. The OpenMoko phone ;-)
> >>>>
> >>>> Unfortunately the project is implemented in Java, which I'm no fan of on
> >>>> anything but a web server or browser but that's a discussion for another
> >>>> day.
> >>>>
> >>>> I tried our system, which is running in an OSGi Container, on Jamvm on
> >>>> the OpenMoko. It works but it sucks up 95% of the CPU when it's idle.
> >>>> Not Good! I tried the same on my eeePC and with Sun's JRE our system
> >>>> uses 1% of CPU whilst JamVM on the eeePC uses 40%. Obviously JamVM does
> >>>> not suit our system.
> >>>>
> >>> No idea if it would be better, but have you tried cacao? Its in shr-feeds now again.
> >>>
> >> This is really weird!
> >> I wrtoe one more or less serious app in java for the freerunner and a
> >> couple of test apps and jamvm had avery fast startup, but was not as
> >> compatible as cacao, but easier to use and did not require that much
> >> ressources.
> >> which distro are you using? which feed are you using to install jamvm
> >> (dunno if still true but there used to be a difference depending on
> >> where you installed it from).
> >>
> >
> > Sorry I've been a bit busy on stuff and only now catching up here on the
> > list.
> >
> > I'm using the latest classpath 0.98 and Jamvm 1.5.3  I can't remember
> > the specifics at the moment but there was some feature of Java 6 that
> > our system's code was using which required JamVM 1.5.3 which in turn
> > required Classpath 0.98. I just used a OE recipe for those and build
> > them for the OpenMoko.
> >
> > I tried the Cacao JRE on my eeePC and it soaked up resources as well so
> > I never even bothered to build it for the phone. Obviously something in
> > our Java System, mabe knophlerfish is not streamlined in these JRE's.
> > There is a Huge difference in running our system in a SUN JRE (1% CPU
> > According top) and other Jre's
> >
> > I'm working now on the eeePC to see can I reduce this 40% on Jamvm. When
> > I get time actually I'm now trying to connect to an AdHoc wifi network
> > form the FreeRunner.
> >
> > Thanks for the clarification on the ARM front. I don't think Sun have a
> > JRE for an ARM 4, no surprise really ;-) Things would be too easy.
> >
> >
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> >
> I think that OpenJDK has some JRE machines running on ARM. It's no
> receipe in OE yet, but i tested a GUI in a OE machine and worked fine.
> I didn't test the load of the CPU, but i could tell that some JREs are
> working.
> 
> I hope to post some of this in OE repos, and get a OpenJava JRE machine :)
> 
> 
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