Jikes is an
open-source
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Java compiler
A Java compiler is a compiler for the programming language Java (programming language), Java. The most common form of output from a Java compiler is Java class files containing platform-neutral Java bytecode, but there are also compilers that outp ...
written in
C++
C++ (pronounced "C plus plus") is a high-level general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup as an extension of the C programming language, or "C with Classes". The language has expanded significan ...
. It is no longer being updated.
The original version was developed by David L. "Dave" Shields and Philippe Charles at
IBM but was quickly transformed into an
open-source
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project contributed to by an active community of developers. Initially hosted by IBM, the project was later transferred to
SourceForge
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. Among its accomplishments, it was much faster in compiling small projects than
Sun's own compiler, and provided more helpful warnings and errors.
Project status
the project is no longer being actively developed. The last 1.22 version was released in October 2004 and partially supports
Java 5.0 (with respect to new classes, but not new language features).
As no further versions were released since,
Java SE 6
The Java language has undergone several changes since JDK 1.0 as well as numerous additions of classes and packages to the standard library. Since J2SE 1.4, the evolution of the Java language has been governed by the Java Community P ...
is not supported.
While the
free software community
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needed
free Java implementations
Free Java implementations are software projects that implement Oracle's Java technologies and are distributed under free software licences, making them free software. Sun released most of its Java source code as free software in May 2007, so it ca ...
, the
GNU Compiler for Java
The GNU Compiler for Java (GCJ) is a free compiler for the Java programming language. It was part of the GNU Compiler Collection for over ten years but as of 2017 it is no longer maintained and will not be part of future releases.
GCJ compiles ...
became the most commonly used compiler.
See also
*
Jikes RVM
Jikes is an open-source Java compiler written in C++. It is no longer being updated.
The original version was developed by David L. "Dave" Shields and Philippe Charles at IBM but was quickly transformed into an open-source project contribute ...
References
External links
* {{sourceforge, jikes
Jikes Archives hosted by David Shields on
WordPress.com
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Discontinued development tools
Free compilers and interpreters
Java compilers