JikesRVM

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Jikes RVM
Developed by Jikes RVM Project Organization
Latest release 2.9.1 / July 3, 2007
Written in C and Java
OS Unix-like
Genre Java Virtual Machine and Java Library
License Common Public License
Website http://jikesrvm.org/

JikesRVM (Jikes Research Virtual Machine) is a research project from IBM to create an open-source Java virtual machine. The key difference from many other VMs is that it is implemented in Java and that is only uses a small amount of C code for accessing the operating system. It uses GNU Classpath as a standard class library. The program is licensed under the Common Public License.

Since it is a research project, the emphasis of JikesRVM is on researching new technologies, as is apparent from the scientific publications it has spawned (over 150 papers as of 2006).[1]

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  1. ^ "JikesRVM research papers"

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