IKVM.NET

IKVM.NET
Developer(s) Jeroen Frijters
Stable release
7.2[1] / December 10, 2012 (2012-12-10)
Preview release
IKVM.NET 8.0 Release Candidate 1 / January 15, 2015 (2015-01-15)
Repository
  • cvs://anonymous@ikvm.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ikvm
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Written in Java and C#
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Java Virtual Machine, Java bytecode compiler and Java Library
License zlib License
Website weblog.ikvm.net

IKVM.NET is an implementation of Java for Mono and the Microsoft .NET Framework. IKVM is free software, distributed under a permissive free software licence.

IKVM.NET includes the following components:

With IKVM.NET you can run compiled Java code (bytecode) directly on Microsoft .NET or Mono. The bytecode is converted on the fly to CIL and executed.

This is in contrast to J#. J# is a Java syntax on the .NET framework, whereas IKVM.NET is effectively a Java framework running on top of .NET's framework.

Jeroen Frijters is the main contributor to IKVM.NET. He is Technical Director of Sumatra Software, based in the Netherlands.[2]

Name

The "IKVM" portion of the name is a play on "JVM" in which the author "just took the two letters adjacent to the J".[3]

Status

As of June 2007, the machine supports Java 1.6. AWT and Swing are partially supported. IKVM uses OpenJDK as its class library.[4]

IKVM has very limited support for Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT). For this reason, it cannot run ImageJ and other apps that depend on AWT. Implementing AWT in IKVM.NET is a low priority.[5][6]

As of 21 April 2017, the project lead has announced "The End of IKVM.NET". He has decided to quit working on IKVM.NET and hopes someone will fork it and continue working on it (under a different project name).[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "IKVM.NET 7.2 Released". Retrieved 2013-01-16.
  2. ↑ "Sumatra Software b.v." Retrieved 2014-04-30.
  3. ↑ "osdir mailing list archive for java.ikvm.devel". Archived from the original on 2012-12-27. Retrieved 2012-10-09.
  4. ↑ "IKVM.NET Home Page". Retrieved 2008-07-16.
  5. ↑ "IKVM.NET developers' blog". Retrieved 2013-03-18.
  6. ↑ "IKVM.NET Users' Guide". Retrieved 2013-03-18.
  7. ↑ "The End of IKVM.NET". Retrieved 2017-07-22.


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