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Since they are targeting an embedded ARM system, maybe they had concerns about running the JVM on such constrained hardware?

• pjmlp 13y ago
  You mean like these? https://www.aicas.com/cms/en/JamaicaVM https://www.aicas.com/cms/en/JamaicaVM
• rcfox 12y ago
  Actually, some ARM processors have instruction set extensions to execute Java bytecode in hardware. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle