The initial goal was to test a free JVM on a gaming device to know if free software can offer a viable alternative to commercial JVMs on this kind of platform.

We found that the GP2X was a good platform with current typical hardware for portable consoles :

• ARM architecture
• Lot of memory
• Cheap

• JVM and standard libraries should contain GP2X specific code as few as possible.
• Developpers could develop on their Java IDE with Java standard libraires (without glue/specific libraries)