No Embedded JAVA?

Dear Folks,

Embedded Java has been around for quite some time, the owner of
this site:

http://www.systronix.com/

has been around the world doing hard embedded stuff for many a
year, he at least used to be a regular contributor to "Circuit Cellar".

Folks used the Dallas Semiconductor "TINI" in their "one wire"
weather stations, embedded web servers, etc., his site is chock
full of JAVA stuff.

Quite a bit of this predates the latest rage of ITX boards, GumStix,
and grown-up tweenie-bot mindstorm.

I can't speak to the efficacy of JAVA as an RT or semi-RT embedded
operating system, the fact of the matter is that it does exist.

If someone is interested in embedded programming take a look at
eCOS, it's in the Debian/Ubuntu repo, as a matter of fact all of the
stuff I'll be using for an upcoming ARM job will be DEB stuff.
( lot's of emb folks are using straight DEB tools these days )
There's quite a bit of info and support for eCOS on the web,
albeit somewhat dated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECos

There have been forks to this over the years, not all of it is "open"
most is though, oh yeah, straight "C", good for learnin C calls to
asm.

I digress, if you're looking for a free, low impact path into embedded
programming, post your Q's.

Regards, db

PS: Just give "embedded JAVA" a google.