Re: Microkernel advocacy (and Java)
This would have to be a 'special' vm, so that each Java program that started
got it's own class loader. Otherwise programs could trounce each other by
modifying the static data in classes.
---- Cris J H
> The microkernel OS they are speaking of is the HURD.
> > Does all of this mean that JAVA could run closer to the kernel (at least
> > relative to other languages in different operating systems) in a
> > microkernel OS than Linux or Windows?
>
> Of course, just add java magic to the exec server, and java programs
> are run as transparent as hash bang scripts or elf files.
>
> It will (is?) possible to have different exec servers for different users.
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Cris J. Holdorph
holdorph@home.com
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