Mobile terminal e.g. mobile telephone, has set of virtual machines e.g. interpreters, for accessing single generic runtime library, thread manager and garbage collector, and generic loader program for assigning machines to applications

摘要

The terminal has a set of virtual machines (27, 27`) e.g. interpreters, for accessing a single generic runtime library (26), a thread manager (28) and a garbage collector (30). Each virtual machine has an adapted interface (34`) for the runtime library. A generic loader program is provided for loading and assigning applications to the virtual machines. The loader program is capable of loading a new virtual machine for an application. An independent claim is also included for a method for executing a number of applications that are written for different software platforms.