Java chips were designed to speed up applications by natively executing Java bytecode. Introduced in the late 1990s, designs were licensed to several manufacturers. The microJava chip was targeted ...

Software that converts a Java source program into bytecode (intermediate language) or to a just-in-time (JIT) compiler that converts bytecode into machine language. It may also refer to compiling ...

The compiler can also add additional code to the program if required. After compiling the source code (a .java file), the compiler generates intermediate object code called bytecode which is a .class ...