Excelsior JET
Excelsior JET was a proprietary Java -to- Native Code - Compiler ( Ahead-of-time compiler ). So it was a compiler that didn't generate bytecode , as is common for Java, but object code for a specific processor.
The compiler can generate executable programs for the Windows , OS X operating systems and operating systems based on the Linux kernel. It can also generate dynamically loadable libraries , i.e. DLLs for Windows and shared libraries for Linux. Excelsior JET 10.0 supports all Java SE 7 packages including AWT , Swing , JNI and Invocation-API.
GraalVM and the GNU Compiler for Java , which can also generate native code, are free alternatives .
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On May 15, 2019, Excelsior announced the discontinuation of Excelsior JET in an email to its customers and the next day on its website. The discontinuation of support and the dismissal of the entire engineering team was announced within only about 2 weeks (for the beginning of June) and the website for downloads would be discontinued in mid-June (within only about 4 weeks). No reason was given for discontinuing the project.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Screenshot of the email. June 15, 2019, accessed July 5, 2019 .
- ^ Excelsior JET Has Been Discontinued. June 13, 2019, archived from the original on July 15, 2019 ; accessed on October 16, 2019 (English).