The GNU Interpreter for Java (GIJ) is a Java bytecode interpreter for the Java programming language. It is part of the open source GNU Compiler for Java (GCJ). GCJ is the compiler counterpart to GIJ. A Java virtual machine or JVM is a virtual machine that runs Java byte code. ... Byte-code is a sort of intermediate code that is more abstract than machine code. ... Interpreter can mean one of the following: In communication, an interpreter is a person whose role is to facilitate dialogue between two parties that do not use the same language. ... Java is an object-oriented programming language developed initially by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems. ... A diagram of the operation of an ideal compiler. ...

External links

• GCJ Manual on GIJ (http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcj/Invoking-gij.html)
• GCJ Homepage (http://gcc.gnu.org/java/)
• GCJ Manual (http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcj/)