Kaffe
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Kaffe is a clean room design of the 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 is a lean, fast and portable virtual machine. When compared to the reference implementation of the JVM 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 zSeries mainframes, it will even run on a PlayStation 2.
Kaffe is free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is being 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 also the Swedish, Norwegian and Danish word for coffee.