The Java JDK (Java Development Kit) is a software development environment that creates Java applications. It includes tools and libraries that enable developers to write, compile, and execute Java ...

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Leaning Technologies announced the second major release of its CheerpJ Java compiler for the Web this week. This release, which was two years in the making, adds WebAssembly runtime modules, which are ...

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 latest edition of the RoboVM ahead-of-time (AOT) compiler and runtime library for Java is now available. The 1.8 release was timed to coincide with the release of Apple's iOS 9 mobile OS and Xcode ...

Azul supplies a number of different high-performance Java compilers, including Zing and Zulu (there is an embedded version of the latter). Azul’s latest offering is an updated version of Zing, ...

Project Galahad would contribute Java-related GraalVM technologies to the OpenJDK Community for possible incubation in Java, starting with GraalVM’s JIT and AOT compiler tech. Plans are moving forward ...

ZURICH—This alpine city is cool, efficient, and fun. Fittingly, so are the young software developers here who are fine-tuning a groundbreaking multilingual virtual machine. GraalVM may be an under-the ...

The Nexus 6P, pictured above, will be one of the first devices to run Android N, the recently-announced new version of Android that is available right now as a Developer preview for Nexus 6P users and ...

A Java compiler is a program that takes the text file work of a developer and compiles it into a platform-independent Java file. Java compilers include the Java Programming Language Compiler (javac), ...