IBM explores making Java Virtual Machine big part of future cloud platforms
June 7, 2013
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Ellen Nessmer.
IBM is conducting research that involves making use of the open Java Virtual Machine (JVM) in a cloud-based setting as a way to provide dynamic services, especially to mobile devices. If the research project works out, it might be considered “the operating system of the future for both embedded systems and the cloud,” said Jan Rellermeyer, IBM research staff member at IBM Research in Austin, Texas, who explained the intent behind the research at this week’s Design Automation Conference.
JVM is the well-known open software created at Sun that facilitates write-once, run-anywhere applications. The idea behind trying to establish JVM as a software stack in the cloud is to facilitate a “continuous platform experience” between JVM-based applications running in the cloud and mobile devices, Rellermeyer noted…
Working with the Java Development Kit (JDK) framework, IBM is experimenting with dedicated JVM on application servers and shared JVM for a platform as a service (PaaS). “The question is how can we turn JVM into more of a cloud-type platform,” Rellermeyer said…
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