Jikes

Jikes is an open source, strictly Java compatible, high performance compiler written in C++ that manages to put out code that is considerably faster than javac (the Java to bytecode compiler built into Java). Note that Jikes compiles to Java bytecode rather than to machine language.

Version

• 1.18 (2003-03-13)
• 1.19 (2004-03-05) jikes119.zip
• 1.22-1 (2005-02-18) - Should compile on OS/2 with John Price's header files.

Links

• Official Jikes website - On SourceForge
• John Price's Jikes page
• Bobby Wolf: J2SE: Jikes - A Better Java Compiler

License

• Open Source - IBM Public License

Author

• IBM
• Ported by John Price (Original OS/2 port)
• Ported by Vadim Yegorov (Current maintainer)