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| latest_preview_version = | latest_preview_date = | operating_system = Unix-like | programming_language = C and Java | genre = Java Virtual Machine | license = GNU General Public License | website = http://www.kaffe.org/ }} Kaffe is a clean room design of a Java Virtual Machine. It comes with a subset of the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition Java API and tools needed to provide a Java runtime environment. Like most other Free Java virtual machines, Kaffe uses GNU Classpath as its class library.
Kaffe, first released in 1996, was the original open-source Java implementation. Initially developed as part of another project, it grew so popular that developers Tim Wilkinson and Peter Mehlitz founded Transvirtual Technologies, Inc. with Kaffe as the company's flagship product. In July of 1998, Transvirtual released Kaffe OpenVM under a GNU General Public License. Now it's developed by a world-wide team of programmers. Beside the mailing list, the developers can often be reached via IRC in the #kaffe channel on irc.freenode.org.
Kaffe is a lean and portable virtual machine, although it's significantly slower than commercial implementations. When compared to the reference implementation of the Java Virtual Machine written by Sun Microsystems, Kaffe is significantly smaller; it thus appeals to embedded system developers. It comes with just-in-time compilers for many of the CPU architectures, and has been ported to more than 70 system platforms in total. It runs on devices ranging from embedded SuperH devices to IBM zSeries mainframe computers, and it'll even run on a PlayStation 2. is also the Danish, Norwegian and Swedish word for coffee. The name was probably chosen because Java is the name of a coffee bean.

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