Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Go Big Blue!
This weekend I played with IBM's Visual Age Micro Edition and, from what I saw, it is sooo very sweet.
It installs (on windows) in a couple of different packages and includes runtimes and examples for several different embedded devices. (Its gotta linux install via rpms as well.) The one that I cared about was for the PalmOS and Motorola 68k.

There are about 10 different little PRCs and PDBs to install that comprise the J9 VM. These all add up to ~130k. Then you add your program and voila, you got a nice java VM on yer palm.
The whole package includes an IDE and several development tools, most notably a linker that strips the code to include only the necessary instructions that your app uses. If I read correctly it goes all the way down to the method level! Very nice.

Any way, thought I'd share this, as I didn't know that IBM had progressed so far in this area. Goto the linked site and you can download or buy a CD with the IDE and runtimes.

Note, the site is down right now, dunno why

Site's back up

-jeepmutt   IBM's embedded stuff