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	aflegg	2008-02-15 , 14:02
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Originally Posted by fms

THAT would be Jazelle - a hardware feature of some ARM CPUs that lets you run Java byte-code kind-of natively on the CPU. Historically, the wide adoption of Jazelle has been plagued by license issues. As I understand things, ARM will only let you use Jazelle when you pay them a license fee.

Indeed. I'm fairly certain that rdcinhou didn't mean to imply that:

There's a working implementation, they just can't release.
There're ongoing discussions to resolve the licencing issue for (1)

Jazelle is proprietary; if Nokia wanted to, they could pay ARM for a licence. Ari Jaaksi has said they don't view Java as a priority for browsing the web these days.

Jalimo - and lardman's work on reverse engineering Jazella - are our best options for those of us who quite like the idea of developing Java applications for Maemo. Google's work in Android on rapid startup & execution of Java bytecode (via an additional compilation step) in resource-constrained environments could also be very interesting.

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