Java Tools
Sun provides the JDK, as mentioned in the section “Java 2 Standard Edition.” IBM also provides a base Java development environment for Windows, Linux, and several other platforms. Its JVM is high performance. Both companies use JIT compilers to speed up execution.
The Jikes project is a collaborative software development project with the goal of providing a compiler from Java source code to bytecode that is conformant, robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, and freely available. Jikes originated in the IBM Research Division. IBM released the source to the open-source community, making it IBM's first open-source effort. This project is jointly managed by a group of companies and individual volunteers throughout the world, using ...
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