hi there was a discussion on this mailing list on whether java to native code compilers are available now. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ todd@cs.arizona.edu Todd A. Proebsting at University of Arizona CS Department, SUBJECT "Toba," A Robust Java-to-C Translation System New Beta Release of Toba for Linux! URL http://www.cs.arizona.edu/sumatra/toba/ DESCRIPTION "Toba" translates Java bytecodes to C. After being compiled, the generated routines link with Toba's run-time system, which includes a complete garbage collector, threads interface (Solaris version only), and core Java API. Toba translates applications (e.g., javac), not applets. Toba-translated applications typically run 3-5 times faster than those interpreted by Sun's JDK 1.0.2. Toba's API does not currently include AWT or dynamic linking. The Solaris version of Toba has thread support; the Linux version does not. (Thread support is not needed for many popular Java applications like javac.) PLATFORM Solaris, Linux BODY Our freely-available distribution includes source code for all of Toba---we encourage outside porting efforts. Toba (the translator) is written in Java. The run-time system is in C. Toba uses the freely- available Boehm-Weiser garbage collector. The Solaris version uses the native Solaris threads package. (We have not used any of Sun's source code--in any way--to develop Toba. Toba source code is free of all of Sun's licensing restrictions.) While this is a beta distribution, Toba appears robust. Because of their significantly improved performance, we run Toba-compiled versions of javac (and Toba itself) exclusively for development purposes and have done so for the last four months. For more information please visit our website, http://www.cs.arizona.edu/sumatra/toba/ Or, simply fetch our distribution and enjoy running your java applications many times faster: ftp://ftp.cs.arizona.edu/sumatra/toba/toba.tar.Z Toba is part of the larger, on-going "Sumatra" research project at the Department of Computer Science of The University of Arizona. The Sumatra project explores the issues surrounding efficient execution of mobile code. For more information about the Sumatra Project, visit our website, http://www.cs.arizona.edu/sumatra/ Members of the Sumatra Project: Todd A. Proebsting (project leader) John H. Hartman Gregg M. Townsend Patrick Bridges Tim Newsham Scott A. Watterson - Igor.