JRockit was a proprietary

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(JVM) originally developed by

Appeal Virtual Machines Appeal Virtual Machines was a Swedish company created in 1998 by students from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. They were mainly known for their JRockit Java Virtual Machine. They were acquired in 2002 by BEA Systems BEA Sys ...

, acquired by

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in 2002, and became part of

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as part of acquisition of BEA Systems in 2008. The JRockit code base was discontinued by Oracle, with some features being integrated into the HotSpot virtual machine as part of the mainline development of the Java platform. JRockit only ever supported Java 6, which is now considered an obsolete release.

History

Following the finalization of the acquisition of

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announced in JavaOne 2010 that the best features of JRockit would be implemented in

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. In May 2011, Oracle announced that JRockit has become free, and confirmed the plan to port JRockit features on

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