Not anymore. Last year, [Michael] wrote Java Grinder, a Java byte-code compiler that compiles classes into assembly language instead of being part of a JVM. This effectively turns Java from a Just ...

A Java compiler is a program that takes the text file work of a developer and compiles it into ... code to the program if required. After compiling the source code (a .java file), the compiler ...

All of these have been translated into bytecode ... on top of Java. Most of these are interpreters, but a few actually compile to bytecode. The former could use GCJ as is; the latter potentially can ...