Jikes is an open sourceJava compiler. The original version was developed by David L. Shields and Philippe Charles at IBM but was quickly transformed into an open source project contributed to by an active community of developers. Initially hosted by IBM, the project has subsequently been transferred to SourceForge. Among its accomplishments, it is much faster in compiling small projects than Sun's own compiler. Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. ... Big Blue redirects here. ... Sourceforge. ...
As of early 2006 the project is no longer being actively developed.
A distinguishing characteristic of Jikes RVM is that it is implemented in the Java™ programming language and is self-hosted i.e., its Java code runs on itself without requiring a second virtual machine.
Jikes RVM (as of March 2003) can run a significant subset of the Eclipse IDE.
Jikes RVM (as of March 2003) is based entirely on the class libraries produced by the GNU Classpath project.