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diff --git a/doc/java b/doc/java deleted file mode 100755 index cf1afa1a39e..00000000000 --- a/doc/java +++ /dev/null @@ -1,62 +0,0 @@ -* Java - - It would be interesting to support the Java language as part - of the Mono project. - - You have to think of Java as various pieces: Java the - language and Java the virtual machine. - - It is possible to compile Java to .NET, as shown by the - Microsoft J# compiler. We could then allow the migration of - Java applications to the Mono runtime. - -** Native compiler - - Although a native compiler can be built, and probably should be - built using an existing compiler, a short term solution is to - build a translator from Java class files to the ECMA CIL images. - - This has the advantage that we can use an existing and tested - Java compiler to generate the code, and then we can use an automated - code compiler that compiles Java VM bytecodes to CIL bytecodes. - -** The translator. - - It would be interesting to write a semantic translator that - converts java byte codes into CIL opcodes. This is possible - because the Java byte codes are a subset of the CIL ones. - - A semantic tree needs to be constructed (very much in the - spirit of what is done in mono_analize_stack in - <tt>mono/mono/jit/jit.c</tt>. Once such a semantic tree is - constructed, we could generate the equivalent Java code. - - This has a number of interesting side effects: people can - continue to use their existing Java compilers to compile their - code, and a simple tool that converts their .class files into - a .NET assembly can be used. - -** Libraries - - We could translate the GNU Classpath libraries with the above - tools to provide the Java runtime required to host into the - Mono runtime. Some special treatment would be required for - core data types like integers, arrays and strings, and of - course reuse where possible existing classes from .NET to make - them compatible. - -** JILC - Java to IL Compiler - - This is an attempt to make the java bytecode available for the - .NET environment. - - The project attempts to generate the IL code / bytecode from the - compiled java class files. It has reached the stage of code-generation. - The issues that needs to be addressed is the mapping of java objects - to the IL objects, eg: java.lang.String to System.String. - - Gaurav Vaish and Abhaya Agarwal are currently leading this project. - The project is currently hosted at <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/jilc">SourceForge.Net</a>. - The official home page of the project is - <a href="http://jilc.sourceforge.net">http://jilc.sourceforge.net</a>. - |