Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for packaging native program extensions with a virtual machine application. The application is distributed in an application package containing application code that runs in a virtual machine, native code that runs outside the virtual machine, and other resources. When the application requires access to native features of the underlying device not provided in the virtual machine, the native code is installed and executed. The virtual machine application accesses the native features by communicating with the native code running outside the virtual machine via inter-process communication.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for packaging native program extensions with a virtual machine application. The application is distributed in an application package containing application code that runs in a virtual machine, native code that runs outside the virtual machine, and other resources. When the application requires access to native features of the underlying device not provided in the virtual machine, the native code is installed and executed. The virtual machine application accesses the native features by communicating with the native code running outside the virtual machine via inter-process communication.

Abstract: A method of extruding a mixture made of a granulate, chips, or powder, etc. of a first thermoplastic and a second thermoplastic is described, the melting range of the first thermoplastic differing from the melting range of the second thermoplastic, using an extruder which has a heatable housing and a screw, which has an intake zone, a melting zone, a delivery zone, and a hole, extending from the intake zone up to the delivery zone, into which a temperature control media may be introduced, in which the temperature control medium causes heating of the screw in the intake zone to a temperature below the melting range of the thermoplastic having the lower melting range and temperature control of the screw in the delivery zone to a temperature which lies between the melting range of the first thermoplastic and the second thermoplastic.

Abstract: A method of extruding a mixture made of a granulate, chips, or powder, etc. of a first thermoplastic and a second thermoplastic is described, the melting range of the first thermoplastic differing from the melting range of the second thermoplastic, using an extruder which has a heatable housing and a screw, which has an intake zone, a melting zone, a delivery zone, and a hole, extending from the intake zone up to the delivery zone, into which a temperature control media may be introduced, in which the temperature control medium causes heating of the screw in the intake zone to a temperature below the melting range of the thermoplastic having the lower melting range and temperature control of the screw in the delivery zone to a temperature which lies between the melting range of the first thermoplastic and the second thermoplastic.