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Title: Platform Specific Notes</TITLE>

<H2>Platform Specific Information: <I>Finding a Good JVM</I></H2>

<P>Jython is 100% Pure Java and should run successfully on any 
bug-free fully 1.1 or 1.2 compliant JVM. 
Unfortunately, such a beast can sometimes be hard to find. 
The following is a collection of notes for getting Jython to run (and 
run well) on specific OS's and JVM's. 
Since performance can also vary considerably across JVM implementations, 
this page will also contain information regarding Jython's performance 
on different platforms.

<P>This list of platform specific information is clearly incomplete. 
If you find this information to be incorrect for your particular platform,
or if you have tips for running Jython on a platform not mentioned 
on this page, please send that information to <A REF="mailto:jython-dev@lists.sourceforge.net">jython-dev</A>.
If your platform is not included in the list below, you might be able 
to get useful information from SUN's 
<A HREF="http://www.javasoft.com/cgi-bin/java-ports.cgi"> list of 
third-party JVM's</A>.

<H3 ALIGN="CENTER">Operating Systems</H3>

<H3>Irix</H3>

<H4><A HREF="http://www.sgi.com/developers/devtools/languages/java.html">
Java Development Environment 3.1.1 from SGI</A></H4>

<P>Jython will work with the 3.0.1 version of the JDE (which is based 
on the 1.1.3 JVM), but there are a number of significant known bugs 
in this release. I strongly recommend using to the 3.1 release on this 
platform.

<P>
<H3>Linux</H3>

<H4><A HREF="http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/ports.html">www.blackdown.org</A></H4>
Following blackdown versions have been used with jython.
<ul>
<li>1.3.0 ppc, i386  
<li>1.2.2 i386, ppc
<li>1.1.8 v3 ppc, i386
</ul>

<h4><a HREF="http://www.ibm.com/java/jdk">IBMJava</a></h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.ibm.com/java/jdk/linux130/">IBMJava jdk for linux 2-13</a>
<li><a href="http://www.ibm.com/java/jdk/118/linux/">IBMJava jdk for linux 1.1.8></a>
</ul>

<H4><A HREF="http://www.towerj.com">Tower Technology Corporation</A></H4>

The <a href="http://www.towerj.com/productsservices/platform.htm">TowerJ VM</a>
have shown impressive performance figures for some 
Jython application. TowerJ is still a not a complete java environment, 
but for some server type applications it can make performance around 2.6
times faster than the IBM and Blackdown JVM's. TowerJ is a commercial
product that also runs on WinNT, Irix, HP, Solaris and others.

<H3>Macintosh</H3>

<P>A guide for installation on Macintosh is available <a href="MacOS_Install.html">
here</a>

<P>Mizutori Tetsuya has made available an application called 
JPython Runner to make it easier to use JPython on this system. 
More details on this system can be found at <A HREF="http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~mizutori/java/index.html#jpythonrunner">
JPython Runner for Macintosh</A>. 

This link also contains pointers to the latest JVM for Macintosh.

<P>Hopefully, future releases of Jython will be able to incorporate 
either this technology or something like it to make life easier 
for Macintosh users.

<H3>Solaris</H3>

<H4><A HREF="http://www.sun.com/solaris/jre/index.html">JRE/JDK from SUN</A></H4>
<ul>
<li>Sun jdk 1.1.8
<li>Sun jdk 1.2
</ul>

<H3>Windows NT, 95, and 98, Windows 2000</H3>

<H4><A HREF="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/">
JDK/JRE 1.3 from SUN</A> <I>(My recommendation for this platform)</I></H4>

<P>This is amoung the fastest of the JVM's for Windows, and it also the 
most compatible with the official Java specification. I'd strongly 
encourage people to start with this VM, and only consider trying 
alternatives if they find performance to be a serious problem for 
their application.

<H4><A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/java/">JView from Microsoft</A></H4>

<P>If you have IE 4.0 installed, you almost certainly already have this VM.
Type &quot;jview&quot; at a command prompt to be sure. Note: if the 
copyright dates you see when you type &quot;jview&quot; do not include 
1998, you have an older VM. Either download a recent version of IE 4.0, 
or download the VM directly from the site above.

<P>If you want to write Jython code that takes advantage of Windows 
specific functionality (using win32 api's, interacting with COM objects, 
...) then this VM will give you all of the platform specific 
functionality you could desire.



<H3 ALIGN="CENTER">Cross-Platform JVM's</H3>
<H3>Kaffe</H3>
<P>Jython does not work with the current version available from transvirtual.
This appears to be both due to some small incompatibilities between this 
Java VM and SUN's version, as well as at least one serious issue which is
the lack of a java.math.BigInteger class -- this lack will be a problem for
any VM that only implements the PersonalJava subset of the full Java spec. 
It should be possible to get Jython working on this VM if someone has the 
time to invest, please let us know if you have any success here or need any help.