Hi Rob.

How would the Java KVM and AWT help in task 1? They might help with task 2, but I don't think they really would help much, because even with a small footprint clas set, Java still uses a lot of memory for itself that should better be available to the application IMHO.

Like I said in a previous post, the GD library should be ok for the graphics stuff (at least after being optimized for the empeg).

The easy installation will probably incorporate the use of an ftp daemon on the empeg (be it a kernel ftpd like Mark Lord proposed, or a user space ftp daemon which I would prefer) and a custom init on the spare partition, installed using the original upgrade process. I will hopefully get a first working version of that ready by the end of this week(end).

cu,
sven