Talk:Java
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J2ME and JavaME
Now called JavaME...
CDC and CLDC
The CDC is ~10M that implements all the key parts of Java. Getting an existing Java package (that might use Swing, for instance, which is not in CDC) to run under it should be much much faster than a port to Python.
GCJ and Eclipse
GCJ can compile eclipse. It's an AOT rather than a JIT... it makes hacking less interesting, but a crosscompiling toolchain could be most useful.
SWT
Eclipse is built on this. Many people bring in SWT bindings for their platform (like GTK on Linux).
Existing applicationsets
Educational packages
see the main page
Libraries and coding frameworks
just supporting a JVM allows support of all languages currently supported; Scala, Python, JRuby...
