Jikes
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| Jikes | |
| Developer: | IBM |
|---|---|
| Latest release: | 1.22 / October 3, 2004 |
| OS: | Cross-platform |
| Use: | Java compiler |
| License: | IBM Public License |
| Website: | http://jikes.sourceforge.net/ |
Jikes is an open source Java compiler written in C++. The original version was developed by David L. Shields and Philippe Charles at IBM but was quickly transformed into an open source project contributed to by an active community of developers. Initially hosted by IBM, the project has subsequently been transferred to SourceForge. Among its accomplishments, it was much faster in compiling small projects than Sun's own compiler.[citation needed]
As of early 2006 the project is no longer being actively developed.[citation needed]. The last 1.22 version was released in October 2004 and support Java 5.0 [1]. Unfortunately, as no further versions were released since, Java SE 6 is not supported.
