NewsForge: The GNU Compiler for Java Comes of Age

“The GNU Compiler for Java (GCJ), a free software implementation
of Java, has been in development for seven years, but with the Free
Software Foundation’s recent call for volunteers, the project is
suddenly receiving more attention than ever before. For many, GCJ
is seen as a means of ensuring that the next version of
OpenOffice.org does not require non-free versions of Java for full
functionality. Yet the scope of the project goes far beyond this
immediate need.

“Part of the larger GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), GCJ consists
of three parts: gcj, a compiler that converts Java code into
machine language; libgcj, a collection of standard Java class
libraries; and GIJ (GNU Interpreter for Java), a Java virtual
machine (JVM)…”

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