Lentil

Lentil is an ECMAscript (Javascript) implementation of a java virtual machine.

Ideas

It should be possible to use a Canvas element in a browser to offer mostly the same functionality as a traditional java applet, without java.

Furthermore, this could be a foundation on which to build a JVM bytecode to Javascript compiler, allowing the use of non-java languages such as Scala or Clojure.

Prerequisites

1. Rhino
2. GNU Classpath
3. SCons

Preparation

1. Copy (or link) js.jar from Rhino into this directory
2. Unzip glibj.jar from Classpath into this directory
3. Run scons to build the java parts and sample programs

Running

Use the go script as an easy way to launch:

$ ./go Hello
Hello world