Project Oberon: the design of an operating system and compiler
Project Oberon: the design of an operating system and compiler
Extensibility safety and performance in the SPIN operating system
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
JRes: a resource accounting interface for Java
Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Multitasking without comprimise: a virtual machine evolution
OOPSLA '01 Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Java Native Interface: Programmer's Guide and Reference
Java Native Interface: Programmer's Guide and Reference
ATEC '02 Proceedings of the General Track of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
A java virtual machine architecture for very small devices
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Language, compiler, and tool for embedded systems
Pilot: An operating system for a personal computer (Summary)
SOSP '79 Proceedings of the seventh ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
The squawk virtual machine: Java™ on the bare metal
OOPSLA '05 Companion to the 20th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Java™ on the bare metal of wireless sensor devices: the squawk Java virtual machine
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Virtual execution environments
Processes in KaffeOS: isolation, resource management, and sharing in java
OSDI'00 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Symposium on Operating System Design & Implementation - Volume 4
Implementing multiple protection domains in java
ATEC '98 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Implementing fast JVM interpreters using Java itself
Proceedings of the 5th international symposium on Principles and practice of programming in Java
Demystifying magic: high-level low-level programming
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
Dual-Mode Execution Environment for active network
Journal of Systems Architecture: the EUROMICRO Journal
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Operating system kernels have been traditionally written in C for flexibility and efficiency. They, however, often suffer from bugs and security vulnerabilities because C is inherently error-prone and unsafe. While there have been attempts to experimentally construct a complete operating system in a type safe language such as Java for higher safety and reliability, such type safe operating systems are not mainstream as yet. In this paper, we present an experimental implementation of the Java Virtual Machine that runs inside the kernel of the Solaris operating system. Our approach is to extend the existing operating system, rather than creating a new operating system from scratch, in order to reap the benefits of a type safe language in the kernel without expensive development and transition cost for a new operating system architecture. We implemented our system by porting an existing small, portable JVM, Squawk, into the Solaris kernel. Our first application of this system is to allow device drivers to be written in Java. A simple device driver was ported from C to Java. Characteristics of the Java device driver and our device driver interface are described.