Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/10/06/06:15:18
Hi Guys,
I saw you talking about implementing a Java compiler in DJGPP for your Web browser (Do you mean compiler or virtual machine to interpret the byte code?).
Here are two pages worth looking at.
http://www.kaffe.org/ - This is a free virtual machine - No DOS port but does port to Linux and Windows NT/95. The interesting thing about it is that it does just in time compilation of the byte code to 386 machine code.
Their sister project guavac
http://HTTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU/~engberg/guavac/
is a stand alone compiler for the Java programming language. It has been written entirely in Gnu C++.
These two projects are being used to create JOLT
http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/jolt/
to quote its web page "The JOLT project is aimed at providing a freely available and redistributble implementation of Sun's Java language and tools".
I have not personally tried to port either of these projects to DOS, but I would think that these would be a useful starting point in writing free Java aware software without getting involved with Sun licences etc.
Steve.
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