Executing Legacy Applications on a Java Operating System |
Andreas Gal, Michael Yang, Christian W. Probst, Michael Franz
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| Abstract | One of the biggest disadvantages of using type-safe languages and frameworks such as Java for the implementation of commercial operating system (OS) platforms is the lack of backward compatibility with legacy execution environments. Traditional Java operating systems are designed to execute Java programs. They struggle to support established application programming interfaces such as POSIX or Win32 as these are founded on the idea of direct execution of native machine code. Instead of using the host processor to execute legacy applications---which would eliminate most of the security and portability benefits of using a type-safe language for the OS implementation in the first place---we propose using a virtual processor implemented on top of the virtual machine infrastructure to execute legacy applications. |
| Type | Conference paper [With referee] |
| Conference | First ECOOP Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems |
| Year | 2004 |
| BibTeX data | [bibtex] |
| IMM Group(s) | Computer Science & Engineering |