Amiga JAVA
 

Today I was clearing my Amiga software collection, burning a few DVDs, throwing some floppies, just sorting that Amiga software mess that I have been accumulating over all these decades.
In an old tape archive I found what appears to be two early (alpha/beta phase) Amiga JAVA compilers named Jikes and Kaffe.

So the questions are:

Are they of practical use?
I seem to have the sources of Jikes, is this good enough for something?

I remember back in the day, I used to download eveything I could, without really checking if it was really usefull. :nuts

Jikes is a compiler by IBM, Kaffe a VM. Both have been opensourced. As Java object code is portable, the VM is the more useful part.

That depends on what you have in mind. ;)

AFAIR it's really too slow for being of any use for graphical applications, at least on classic amigas.
I don't know if gfx are supported or is this text only VM?

@gilgamesh
Thanks for clarifying what was what.

@jotd
I dont know if graphics are supported, I havent tried it yet, but anyway I will upload it to The Zone! so that you can try it.
BTW, if it is such a slow thing on 68k, it isnt worthwile :sad