Mohammed Lokhandwala wrote:
>
> I am looking for a good JVM for Linux,
> any help ?
The Sun JVM, ported at http://www.blackdown.org
is a good JVM, although not as fast as one might
like. If you combine it with IBM's Jikes
compiler, you'll get an excellent and robust
Java development environment, if you're not too
worried about speed.
There are some alternatives: Kaffe
(http://www.transvirtual.org/). This may be
just my isolated experience, but I can't get
Kaffe to run any non-trivial Java programs
at all. TYA (ftp://gonzalez.cyberus.ca/pub/Linux/java/)
which is a plug-in JIT for the Sun JVM, which
is pretty stable, and getting faster. There
is also a JVM in development at
http://www.hungry.com/products/japhar.
Then there are commercial alternatives, of
which TowerJ (http://www.twr.com) is notable.
A number of companies have promised ports of
commercial JITs - IBM and Metroworks - but
neither has appeared yet.
When Java 2 (a.k.a. JDK 1.2) appears on the
scene for Linux, it may contain a JIT. Don't
ask on the list about when Java 2 will appear,
because no one knows and everyone is bored of
reading about it.
Rich.
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