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Linked by David Adams on Thu 18th Dec 2008 23:07 UTC, submitted by ebasconp

I read in InfoQ: "Ja.NET is a port of Java 1.5 SE to the .NET platform. The compiler is based on the Eclipse JDT, which has been modified to generate IL as well as Java Byte Code. Java traditionally compiles each class into a separate file, but this creates an unacceptable overhead for .NET. To address this, a tool based on Cecil is used to create larger assemblies much in the same way Jar files are created for Java."

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IKVM

by Delgarde on Thu 18th Dec 2008 23:45 UTC

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2008-08-19

This sounds similar to IKVM, which has been around for years...

http://www.ikvm.net/

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RE: IKVM

by ebasconp on Fri 19th Dec 2008 02:11 in reply to "IKVM"

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IKVM is a Java virtual machine on top of .NET (I mean, implemented using C# instead of C++, for example).

AFAIK, Ja.NET is a java compiler that generates IL instead of bytecodes.

Edited 2008-12-19 02:12 UTC

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RE[2]: IKVM

by Delgarde on Fri 19th Dec 2008 02:59 in reply to "RE: IKVM"

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Ah, yes - I missed that part. I wonder... Java has the ability to invoke the compiler from code... I wonder if that generates JVM or IL bytecode..

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