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 ...

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 ...

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 ...