Re: Friendly co-existance -- JAVA400-L

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Bramley, Stu wrote:

Like you, I think this opens huge possibilities.  I think it allows
servlets to communicate with servers far more directly, not to mention
allowing green screen programs to easily communicate with browser-based
sessions and vice versa.
I totally agree. Given that any OS/400 job that wants to call into Java code has to create its own JVM then the scalability of any OS/400 application calling Java quickly diminishes because of the overhead of creating potentially hundreds/thousands of JVMs.

Even Sun failed to handle that JVM stuff more elegantly (on Intel or Linux Platforms). Only with 1.5 we will see some class-sharing across different VMs which will improve startup time, but this feature was developed by apple and was gifted to Sun. Real VM sharing is still not possible but there are papers out there for about some years, describing a VM capable of that. For ServerSide Apps, this is not so crucial, but ask some Swing Developers how they feel about startup time, they will instantly get upset when talking about that issue.

Marc Logemann

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