An interesting fact about the new support for Java in the Google App Engine, is that it supports real, standards based Java; in other words it runs JVM bytecode. It might sound like something trivial, but it’s not. In fact, before the announcement many people had speculated that the Java support in GAE would be
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Project Guest VM
I’ve often wondered how realistic it was to imagine a JVM without an OS. There have been attempts to create a full-Java OS (Sun’s own JavaOS, JNode, JOS, JX, …) and I recall that when Java was first introduced, Sun promised that there would be Java CPUs that would natively run bytecode. Results have been
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