Maurice LING wrote: > > I take a simplistic view that Java bytecodes is all that is to be dealt > with.
Well, that and things like class loading. You'll need a library implementing the "standard" Java API, although that's never been hard to obtain, and the official implementation will be genuinely free to redistribute before too long as well. > And the book "Programming for the Java Virtual Machine" by Joshua > Engel did demonstrated in principle that it is possible to program in > Java bytecodes. There are also other researchware which tried to compile > other languages into Java bytecodes. I am not sure if exception handling > etc are dealt with before bytecode level. I also envision that the core > implementation of JVM is a big switch statement, just like in Python VM > (the bytecode executor). It's just an instruction set, but with some fairly "complicated" instructions, just as you find in the Python virtual machine instruction set - don't expect them all to be like RISC instructions, or even traditional CISC instructions. > Will it then be the case of adding the set of Java bytecodes into Python > bytecodes and implementing Java bytecode operations? Or am I just > fooling myself here? Take a look at the code, although you might want to steer clear of the import hooks initially: http://www.python.org/pypi/javaclass Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
