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Posted to dev@edgent.apache.org by donovan o'hara <do...@gmail.com> on 2017/03/08 19:02:02 UTC

Why Java?

Hi,

What are the motivations for doing this in Java if the intention is that it
would mostly or often run in resouce poor environments? Would it not have
been better to write this for instance in C/C++ for a smaller footprint?

I did not see you adress this on your site - if you do please point me to
it.

Thanks
Donovan

Re: Why Java?

Posted by Katherine Marsden <km...@apache.org>.
On 3/9/17 8:40 AM, Katherine Marsden wrote:
Hmmm, looks like this went directly to Donovan instead of the list.
Donovan, I am bcc'ing you, but please respond on the list and subscribe 
to see the discussion.
http://edgent.incubator.apache.org/docs/community


> On 3/8/17 11:02 AM, donovan o'hara wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> What are the motivations for doing this in Java if the intention is
>> that it
>> would mostly or often run in resouce poor environments? Would it not have
>> been better to write this for instance in C/C++ for a smaller footprint?
>>
>> I did not see you adress this on your site - if you do please point me to
>> it.
>>
> Hello Donovan,
>
> Welcome to the Edgent community.
>
> I was not involved in the original design but am guessing a lot of it
> has to do with the general "Why java?" answers such as  portability and
> great class libraries for use by not only Edgent, but also applications.
> The ability to easily perform fairly sophisticated analytics  at the
> edge makes java an easier development environment than C or C++ in my
> opinion. This is useful especially in  restricted bandwidth and high
> communication cost scenarios.
>
> That said there has been some initial discussion in the community of
> trying to get support for something similar on  IOS.   Is seems there is
> interest in something like Edgent other languages.
>
> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/27996426fae005bf86af2d3633947e97f396026da49ddf52e1ea10de@%3Cdev.edgent.apache.org%3E
>
>
> Best
>
> Katherine
>

Re: Why Java?

Posted by Katherine Marsden <km...@apache.org>.
On 3/8/17 11:02 AM, donovan o'hara wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What are the motivations for doing this in Java if the intention is that it
> would mostly or often run in resouce poor environments? Would it not have
> been better to write this for instance in C/C++ for a smaller footprint?
>
> I did not see you adress this on your site - if you do please point me to
> it.
>
Hello Donovan,

Welcome to the Edgent community.

I was not involved in the original design but am guessing a lot of it 
has to do with the general "Why java?" answers such as  portability and 
great class libraries for use by not only Edgent, but also applications. 
The ability to easily perform fairly sophisticated analytics  at the 
edge makes java an easier development environment than C or C++ in my 
opinion. This is useful especially in  restricted bandwidth and high 
communication cost scenarios.

That said there has been some initial discussion in the community of 
trying to get support for something similar on  IOS.   Is seems there is 
interest in something like Edgent other languages.

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/27996426fae005bf86af2d3633947e97f396026da49ddf52e1ea10de@%3Cdev.edgent.apache.org%3E

Best

Katherine