Porting Java ME to Open JDK

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On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Eric Bresie <ebresie at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I would like to propose porting (maybe more appropriate, merge of)
>  Java ME to OpenJDK.
>
>  Since the idea would involve migrating the ME platform specific (at
>  least the VM) with some additional build logic (a build task to build
>  only ME specific elements) into the Open JDK side, I thought posting
>  here would be appropriate.

We looked at generating different 'profiles' of GNU Classpath every
now and then,
and it turned out to be non-trivial, since there are differences in core library
behavior from SE release to SE release that would be quite hard to maintain
in the same tree, without resorting to a lot of preprocessing. I would imagine
the boundary between SE and ME to be much higher, so that would seem to
me to require a significant amount of non-trivial build logic to accomplish, if
you are after building certifiably compatible ME and SE releases from the same
tree.

A simpler project could be to try to make the OpenJDK class library work
with the PhoneME VM.

cheers,
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