Jikes
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Jikes is an open-source Java compiler written in C++. It is no longer being updated.
The original version was developed by David L. "Dave" Shields and Philippe Charles at IBM but was quickly transformed into an open-source project contributed to by an activeScript error: No such module "Unsubst". community of developers. Initially hosted by IBM, the project was later transferred to SourceForge. Among its accomplishments, it was much faster in compiling small projects than Sun's own compiler, and provided more helpful warnings and errors.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Project status
since 2010[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". the project is no longer being actively developed.[1] The last 1.22 version was released in October 2004 and partially supports Java 5.0 (with respect to new classes, but not new language features).[2][3] As no further versions were released since, Java SE 6 is not supported.
While the free software community needed free Java implementations, the GNU Compiler for Java became the most commonly used compiler.
See also
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References
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External links
- Jikes on SourceForge
- Jikes Archives, hosted by David Shields on WordPress.com