Java News from Tuesday, July 5, 2005

Etienne Gagnon has released version 1.12 of SableVM, a Java bytecode interpreter (that is, a virtual machine) written in C. "SableVM requires an ANSI/ISO C compiler (but preferably GCC) and a POSIX platform. It requires a strong memory model (sequential consistency) on multiprocessor systems." SableVM is available for GNU/Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD. Besides bug fixes, changes in 1.12 include:

• A SableVM SDK which provides a JAVA_HOME-like environment consisting of:
  • SableVM for 'java'
  • jikes for 'javac'
  • gjdoc for 'javadoc'
  • fastjar for 'jar'
  • cp-tools for 'javah', 'javap', and others.
• libffi and libpopt are now bundled with SableVM sources (Hmm, maybe I can now build this on Mac OS X)
• Fixed write barriers for generational garbage collector.
• Imported GNU Classpath 0.16 release (plus later fixes).
• Improved AIX support.
• Improved Cygwin support (not yet supported by SableVM SDK).

SableVM is published under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).