- Kaffe
Infobox Software
name = Kaffe
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latest release version = 1.1.9
latest release date = release date|2008|2|26
latest preview version =
latest preview date =
operating system =Unix-like
programming language = C and Java
genre =Java Virtual Machine
license =GNU General Public License
website = http://www.kaffe.org/Kaffe is a
clean room design of aJava Virtual Machine . It comes with a subset of theJava 2 Platform, Standard Edition Java API andtool s needed to provide a Java runtime environment. Like most other Free Java virtual machines, Kaffe usesGNU Classpath as its class library.Kaffe, first released in 1996, was the original open-source Java implementation. Initially developed as part of another project, it grew so popular that developers Tim Wilkinson and Peter Mehlitz founded
Transvirtual Technologies, Inc. with Kaffe as the company's flagship product. In July 1998, Transvirtual released Kaffe OpenVM under aGNU General Public License . Now it is developed by a world-wide team of programmers. Beside the mailing list, the developers can often be reached via IRC in the #kaffe channel on irc.freenode.org.Kaffe is a lean and portable
virtual machine , although it is significantly slower than commercial implementations. [ [http://www.shudo.net/jit/perf/ Performance Comparison of Java/.NET Runtimes (Oct 2004) ] ] When compared to the reference implementation of the Java Virtual Machine written bySun Microsystems , Kaffe is significantly smaller; it thus appeals toembedded system developers. It comes with just-in-timecompilers for many of theCPU architecture s, and has been ported to more than 70system platform s in total. It runs on devices ranging from embeddedSuperH devices toIBM zSeries mainframe computer s, and it will even run on aPlayStation 2 .See also
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List of Java virtual machines
*GNU Classpath
*Free Java implementations References
External links
* [http://www.kaffe.org/ Kaffe homepage]
* [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3482 Transvirtual Adopts Microsoft Java Extensions, October 1st, 1999 by Craig Knudsen]
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