PhoneME, a JavaVM for wifi routers
19 Jan, 2009 | Written by Frank Carver | under Information
For some time I have beem mulling over the posibilities of deploying applications to low-cost wireless routers to provide hyper-local services to wi-fi surfers. One thing which has always put me off is the apparent need to dig deep into low-level Linux hacking. It’s a *long* time since I last did any significant C development.
However, it seems that there are ways to support a small footprint Java virtual machine on some of this class of devices. This in turn opens up opportunities for deploying some of my own small-footprint java software here.
Wolf Paulus’ Web Journal:PhoneME, a JavaVM for the Fonera FON Router.
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Andrew Beresford | January 19th, 2009 at 13:02 #
Another possibility might be to use GCJ to compile to a native binary. Of course, you’d have to use a cross-compiler to build to ARM, but it would avoid the overhead of having a JVM and libraries on a platform with little Flash and RAM.
Frank | January 19th, 2009 at 15:42 #
Hmm. Along those lines, Avian looks interesting, too. Although I could not build it on my ubuntu box (make complained about a missing zlib.h)