kaffe - a virtual machine to execute Java(tm) bytecode

kaffe [-help] [-version] [-ss size ] [-ms size ] [-mx size ] [-classpath path ] [-addclasspath path ] [-noverify] [-D property = value ] [-v] [-verbosegc] [-verbosejit] [-verbosemem] [-jar] [-vmdebug flag{,flag} ] classname

DESCRIPTION

kaffe executes classfile containing Java bytecode, either as a pure bytecode interpreter, or by doing
"just-in-time" code conversion from the abstract code to the host machine's native code.

OPTIONS


-help Give a short usage message.
-version Print the version number.
-ss size Set the maximum stack size to size
-mx size Set the maximum heap size to size
-ms size Set the initial heap size to size
-classpath path Set the path which is searched for compiled classes, e.g. ${prefix}/share/kaffe
-addclasspath path Appends the given path to the current classpath setting. Multiple
instances of this flag may be given.
-noverify Do not verify any bytecode.
-Dproperty=value Set a property to a given value.
-jar Executable is a JAR file.
-v Enable verbose output.
-verbosegc Print message during garbage collection.
-verbosemem Print detailed memory allocation statistics.
-verbosejit Print message during JIT code generation.
-vmdebug flag{,flag} Enable VM debugging. Set ``\-vmdebug list'' for a list.

CLASS

classname Java class name to invoke. Note that this is not the filename.

ENVIRONMENT

CLASSPATH A colon-separated list of directories in which to search for .class files.

KAFFEHOME Base directory of kaffe installation.

LD_LIBRARY_PATH A colon-separated list of directories in which to search for libraries. See .BR ld.so (1) for details. This needs to be set if Kaffe's shared libraries are installed in a location not part of the dynamic loader's default search path.

FILES

/boot/home/bekaffe/share/kaffe/kafferc System-wide shell script read by kaffe script (optional).

"${HOME}/.kafferc" Per-user shell script read by kaffe script (optional).

DIAGNOSTICS

Not documented yet.

NOTES

Java is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Kaffe is available from various sites, the primary one being .RI < http://www.transvirtual.com> . There are several mailing lists for Kaffe:

kaffe@rufus.w3.org General Kaffe discussions

kaffe-announce@rufus.w3.org Kaffe related announcements .LP To subscribe to these lists send a message containing the word "subscribe" to .IR -request@rufus.w3.org

BUGS

See the file FAQ.Known-Bugs for an updated list.

AUTHOR

Kaffe was originally written by Tim Wilkinson , 1996. Many others contributed to the Kaffe project. They are listed in the source distribution's NOTES/THANKS and NOTES/HELPERS files.

COPYING

Kaffe is distributed under the GNU GPL. For full details, see the file license.terms in the source distribution for full details.

SEE ALSO

Guavac, the GNU Java compiler, David Engberg
The BeKaffe project