Running java on NI LabVIEW Robotics Starter Kit sbRIO-9631

[RichardBrink]

Hi there, 

My colleague and I have been trying to run java on the NI LabVIEW Robotics Starter Kit sbRIO-9631 but we still haven't been able to run any java programs..

We know that our sbRIO-9631 runs vxWorks 6.3 and we've seen that there are several projects claiming that they have ported the java environment to vxWorks.

But we were not able to get them running..

Has anyone else tried running java on this kit?

Thanks.

[RikPrins]

Hello Richard,

Unfortunately our cRIO and sbRIO targets are not able to handle JAVA code. You are correct that VxWorks should be able to handle JAVA but in the system is also an FPGA to communicate to the modules. The interface to this FPGA is not made ready to handle JAVA. We have a collaboration with FIRST for the FIRST Robot Competition where we deliver special cRIO targets which have a fixed FPGA personality and wrapper code to be able to handle JAVA. But this is not the case for the Robotics Starter kit which has (like you said) a sbRIO-9631 onboard.

Kind regards,