Questions about Android, Erjang, BEAM, JVM, and Dalvik

[Stu]

Hi all,

I am new to the group.  I am planning to build robots with my kids.  :-)   My current target platform is:

Hardware: Gumstix (Overo) ( http://www.gumstix.com/ )

OS: Android 

Language: Erlang

As a first test, I did get Erlang for Android ( http://www.burbas.se/artiklar/erlang-for-the-android-plattform/ ) running on both my Motorola Xoom and HP Touchpad (running Android)!  Nice work!  

Doing a little more digging about production development brought up a couple of questions:

How does this group view the Erjang work ( https://github.com/trifork/erjang/wiki ) ?    

Since Android has an embedded JVM (Dalvik),  is Erjang a resource we can leverage toward a truly embedded Erlang?

What are the important differences between the BEAM, JVM, and Dalvik when thinking about an embedded Erlang?

Could we compile BEAM byte code to Dalvik byte code in the same way the Android SDK compiles Java byte code to Dalvik byte code?

Thoughts?

Stu