This project is no longer under active development. For other open source JVMs see the Classpath project

John Leuner - (jewel AT subvert-the-dominant-paradigm DOT net )
12 May 2006

A free Java Virtual Machine

What is kissme?

kissme is Java Virtual Machine (JVM) freely available under the GPL.

It is currently still under development but can run many console java applications. The Kissme JVM has the following properties:

It runs on UNIX, particularly GNU/Linux.
It is written in C (although the JIT is being written in Java)
It uses native (Operating System) threads, as opposed to user or 'green' threads.
It uses a conservative Mark and Sweep garbage collector. (Hopefully this will change in the future.)
It interprets java bytecodes. (A JIT compiler that compiles bytecode to native i386 code is under development, though this project has been inactive for some time.)
It supports an extension to the JVM that implements orthogonal persistence. This is a mechanism in which the JVM transparently migrates Java data structures between memory and a persistent store.
It uses the GNU Classpath runtime libraries. Classpath is a clean-room, open source reimplementation of the standard Java runtime libraries.

Downloading Kissme

You can download Kissme in the following ways:

From CVS

To check out the Kissme source from the SourceForge CVS repository, run the following commands:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/kissme login 
 
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/kissme co kissme

Please refer to this page for more details.

As a Kissme source tarball or binary debian package

Kissme release source tarballs and binary (debian) packages can be downloaded from this page.

The latest release for Kissme is 0.0.32.

More information about Kissme

New developments in Kissme (JIT, Exact Garbage Collection, Persistence etc)

Past news items

Kissme's SourceForge project page

(This contains current and historical ' releases, pages for browsing the CVS, the bugs and patches databases, mailing list archives, etc.)

Kissme's history and links to papers

Building Kissme

Refer to the "README" and "docs/BUILDING" file for up to date build instructions.

Dependencies

Kissme requires a Java bytecode compiler (e.g. Jikes 1.18), a GNU C compiler and recent versions of the automake / autoconf tools. Refer to the "docs/BUILDING" file for more details.

Kissme depends on GNU Classpath's Java classes and native libraries. For Kissme 0.0.31, you need to download, build and install GNU Classpath 0.06.
For Kissme 0.0.32, you need to download, build and install GNU Classpath from CVS (what will become 0.07) You can obtain GNU Classpath from the GNU Classpath website.

kissme depends on the gmp library. I use gmp3, on debian:

apt-get install libgmp3-dev

Last updated 1 December 2003

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