We all love it: Screenshot time!

This is PhoneME running on an N800 with the Chinook/Maemo 4.0/OS 2008 distribution. Since the differences between Maemo's Chinook and Diablo distribution releases are minimal you should be able to use the same packages on both. More on that later.

And here we have the same app (= jalimo-swt-example) running on OpenMoko's Freerunner.

Needless to say that startup and runtime performance of PhoneME simply rock: The small SWT-based UI appears within 4 to 5 seconds on both devices.

If you have any of the two devices (or an N810) you can now install the JVM through Jalimo's repositories. Get them while they are hot. ;-)

Yeah, its true. The OpenMoko gals & guys finally fixed manufacturing issues and the first free (as in Freedom) mobile phone hardware is produced as you read this sentence. Great isn't it?

Just in time for this I finished the first bit of work to get PhoneME Advanced compiled in OpenEmbedded. This means that soon no one wanting that runtime on their device needs to fumble with its intimidating build system. It will not be possible to provide recipes which allow setting all the countless configuration options but I will write the recipes in a way that you can easily derive the variant you want on your hardware.

If you look at the building instructions for PhoneME you will see that they contain a lot of annoying steps: Getting a GNU toolchain, patch some header files, set configuration options, point variables to a bunch of tools (javac, java, javah and so on). In contrast if you have a working OpenEmbedded environment all you need to do is enter:

bitbake phoneme-advanced-foundation

and this will not only give you that unhandy ZIP file the built produces. No, you get a package of any flavour (IPK, DEB and RPM) plus another one containing the unstripped 'cvm' executable. Sweet isn't it?

Here kind of a proof that I really got this working (on OpenMoko Freerunner):

root@om-gta02:~# java-cdc -version
Product: phoneME Advanced (phoneme_advanced_mr2-b73)
Profile: Foundation Profile Specification 1.1
JVM:     CVM phoneme_advanced_mr2-b73 (interpreter loop)

java-cdc -cp bsh.jar bsh.Interpreter
BeanShell 2.0b4 - by Pat Niemeyer (pat@pat.net)
bsh % print(System.getProperties());
{
java.library.builtin.net=yes,
sun.boot.library.path=/usr/lib/jvm/phoneme-advanced-foundation/lib,
java.vm.version=phoneme_advanced_mr2-b73,
java.vm.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.,
java.vendor.url=http://java.sun.com/,
path.separator=:,
java.vm.name=CVM,
file.encoding.pkg=sun.io,
java.vm.specification.name=Java Virtual Machine Specification,
user.dir=/home/root,
os.arch=armv4tl,
microedition.encoding=ISO-8859-1,
java.io.tmpdir=/tmp, line.separator=
,
java.vm.specification.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.,
microedition.profiles=,
java.awt.fonts=,
os.name=Linux,
java.library.builtin.zip=yes,
java.library.path=/usr/lib/jvm/phoneme-advanced-foundation/lib,
microedition.platform=j2me,
java.specification.name=Foundation Profile Specification,
java.class.version=47.0,
sun.misc.product=phoneME Advanced,
os.version=2.6.24,
user.home=/home/root,
user.timezone=,
file.encoding=ISO8859_1,
java.specification.version=1.1,
java.class.path=bsh.jar,
microedition.locale=en_US, user.name=root,
java.vm.specification.version=1.0,
java.home=/usr/lib/jvm/phoneme-advanced-foundation,
user.language=en,
java.specification.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.,
java.vm.info=interpreter loop,
java.version=phoneme_advanced_mr2-b73,
java.ext.dirs=,
sun.boot.class.path=/usr/lib/jvm/phoneme-advanced-foundation/lib/foundation.jar,
java.library.builtin.math=yes, microedition.commports=/dev/ttyS0,
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.,
file.separator=/,
microedition.configuration=CLDC-1.1,
sun.io.unicode.encoding=UnicodeLittle,
sun.cpu.endian=little,
user.region=US,
sun.cpu.isalist=
}

It is running interpreted only and with the most basic class library ("foundation" profile) but still it is a start.