[ANNOUNCEMENT] Kaffe 0.9.1 released

[Tim Wilkinson]

KAFFE v0.9.1 - A JIT and interpreting virtual machine to run Java(tm)*
code
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                *** Kaffe is now JDK 1.1.2 compliant ***

Kaffe is a virtual machine design to execute Java bytecode.
This machine can be configured in two modes.  In one mode it operates as
a pure bytecode interpreter (not unlike Javasoft's machine); in the
second
mode if performs "just-in-time" code conversion from the abstract code
to
the host machine's native code.  This will ultimately allow execution of
Java code at the same speed as standard compiled code but while
maintaining
the advantages and flexibility of code independence.

New Features
------------

This version of Kaffe has the following new features:

 * Kaffe is now JDK 1.1.2 compliant !

 * Added -verbosemem options to dump extensive memory allocation
statistics.

 * Major reduction in memory footprint.

 * Use of code trampolines to speed method translation and dispatch.

 * Lots of bug fixes (see Changelog)

Platforms
---------

Kaffe will run on the following platforms ('J' indicates 'just-in-time'
support, 'I' indicates 'interpreter' support):

 
========================================================================
  uProc     | Mode |    Systems
 
========================================================================
  i386      | J+I  |    FreeBSD 2.x +   Unixware        NetBSD 1.x
            |      |    Solaris 2.x     BSDI 2.x        Linux 2.0.0 +
            |      |    SCO 3.2v5       NeXTStep 3.x    Windows '95
            |      |    DG/UX           OpenBSD 2.x     OpenStep 4.x
            |      |    QNX 4.x
 
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  Sparc     | J+I  |    SunOS 4.x       Solaris 2.x     NetBSD 1.x
            |      |    NeXTStep 3.x    Linux           Fujitsu UXP/DS
            |      |    BSDI 3.x
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Alpha     | J+I  |    Linux           OSF/1 
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
  M68K      | J+I  |    AmigaOS         NeXTStep 3.x    NetBSD 1.x
            |      |    SunOS 4.x       Linux           AUX
            |      |    OpenBSD 2.x
 
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  PowerPC   | I    |    MkLinux         MachTen 4.0.3   AIX
 
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  MIPS      | I    |    IRIX 5 & 6      NetBSD 1.x
 
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  PARISC    | I    |    HPUX 10.x
 
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  StrongARM | I    |    RiscIX          (work-in-progress)
 
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I encourage people to make ports to other platforms and to feed them
back
to me.  I would recommend that initial ports concentrate on the
interpreter.
These can then be used as the basis for developing JIT versions for
these
systems.

The sources for Kaffe can be found at the following location:

Europe:
        ftp://ftp.kaffe.org/pub/kaffe/
        ftp://ftp.sarc.city.ac.uk/pub/kaffe/
        ftp://ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/kaffe/
        ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/languages/java/kaffe/
        ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/Languages/Java/kaffe/
        ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/languages/java/kaffe/
        ftp://alterego.stack.urc.tue.nl/pub/kaffe/
        ftp://ftp.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/pub/lang/java/kaffe/
        ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/source/Java/kaffe/
USA:
        ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/pub/kaffe/
        ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/languages/java/kaffe/
        ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/mirrors/kaffe/
Japan:
        ftp://ftp.webcity.co.jp/pub/andoh/java/kaffe/
Others:
        ftp://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/languages/java/kaffe/


What you need
-------------

For a Kaffe system you need the following parts:

 kaffe-0.9.1.tgz                        Virtual machine and all bits
                                        provided by tjwassoc.co.uk
 kaffe-0.9.1-package-javasoft.com.tgz   Sun's class libraries.

These two are are the minimum to get something useful working (you might
already have the classes libraries from JDK 1.1.2; if so don't bother to
get them again).

If you want to use graphics you'll need one of the following:

 kaffe-0.9.1-package-biss-net.com.tgz   AWT graphics support.
 kaffe-0.9.1-package-epfl.ch.tgz        Alternative graphics support.

Uncompress and untar these archives into the same directory, configure,
make and install.

Enjoy.

Tim Wilkinson
<tim at kaffe.org>
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* Java is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.