Hi Every Body!

Please any body tell me, is java is so powerful to do system programming wih it like C language and Assmbly.

If java is powerful enough to do system programming like C language and Assembly?

I hardly understand you, but why don't you find out yourself?

Java was initially built to handle hardware if that is what you mean.

However, Java is SO robust and memory-expensive that it isn't recommended for low-level use.

Furthermore Java is very managed, in which it has automatic garbage collecting and prevents individuals from handling/manipulating memory freely which can be undesirable for those who need total control when handling devices.

For performance reasons, it is unrecommended to use Java in place of C/C++ when it comes to doing low-level systematic commands - unrecommended if not impossible.

I do know that Java does have device-handling compatibility, I just don't know all of the devices off the top of my head. Cell phones come to mind immediately =P

In the J2ME ( for the cell phones ) , there we are using the java API as in J2SE , the APIs are different and limited language syntax are there . That is the difference with the J2ME and J2SE . So as I know J2ME world there is no system programming .


But in the java world there is a keyword 'native' through that , you can call a procedure in a *.dll file . That means , whatever an application can do with the c++ , can done with the java [underline]AS I KNOW [/underline] . I may be wrong . So access to the device drivers are possible through the native calls or java's api . But that is not system programming . that still the application level programming .

To be system programming normally we should write the code to write to the device registers and memory locations and I don't think that java byte-code can done that .

Even using the assembly or c++ , you still
can write the application programs and device drivers . But when a native machine code application , it can be write using even assembly ,but that still not a system programming .