Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. To run Java apps, open JAR files or compile some source code into bytecode you’ll need to ...

Software that converts a Java source program into bytecode (intermediate language) or to a just-in-time (JIT) compiler that converts bytecode into machine language. It may also refer to compiling the ...

The first stable release (1.0) of the RoboVM ahead-of-time (AOT) compiler and runtime library for Java is now available. Developed by Swedish company Trillain Mobile, the open-source tool is designed ...

Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...

Momentum is building for the Graal project, an implementation of a dynamic compiler in Java to produce excellent code quality without compromising compile time and memory usage in the Java Virtual ...

The goal of Project Leyden is to "address the long-term pain points of Java's slow startup time, slow time to peak performance, and large footprint." It wanted to get there "by introducing a concept ...

To install Java on Windows and run Java apps on Microsoft’s operating system, you need to obtain a copy of the Java Development Toolkit (JDK) installation media. The JDK includes both a Java Runtime ...