IKVM.NET

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IKVM.NET
Developer(s) Jeroen Frijters
Stable release 0.44.0.5 / September 9, 2010; 17 months ago (2010-09-09)
Preview release 0.45.4042 / January 25, 2011; 13 months ago (2011-01-25)
Written in Java and C#
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Java Virtual Machine, Java bytecode compiler and Java Library
License zlib License
Website http://www.ikvm.net/

IKVM.NET is an implementation of Java for Mono and the Microsoft .NET Framework. IKVM is free software, distributed under a permissive free software licence.[1]

IKVM.NET includes the following components:

  • A Java Virtual Machine implemented in .NET
  • A .NET implementation of the Java class libraries
  • A converter from JAR to DLL
  • Tools that enable Java and .NET interoperability

With IKVM.NET you can run compiled Java code (bytecode) directly on Microsoft .NET or Mono. The bytecode is converted on the fly to CIL and executed.

This is in contrast to J#. J# is a Java syntax on the .NET framework, whereas IKVM.NET is effectively a Java framework running on top of .NET's framework.

Jeroen Frijters is the main contributor to IKVM.NET. He is Technical Director of Sumatra Software, based in The Netherlands.

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[edit] Status

As of June 2007, the machine supports Java 1.6. AWT and Swing are partially supported. IKVM uses OpenJDK as its class library.[1]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ "IKVM.NET Home Page". http://www.ikvm.net/. Retrieved 2008-07-16. 

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