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Avian
A lightweight alternative to Java

Status

Current Release

The latest release is version 0.1.1. As of this release, everything should work as advertised on the supported platforms. Please post to the discussion group if you have any problems.

Download Avian 0.1.1

Recent changes:

Next Release

The next major release will be 1.0. These are the remaining criteria for that release:

Post-1.0 Ideas

Non-goals

Avian is not a complete Java implementation, nor is it intended to be. Thus, less-used Java features will only be added if they are easily maintainable and do not add significant overhead to applications which don't use them.

In particular, Avian does no bytecode verification in the VM and no security checks in the class library. Applications which run untrusted bytecode must therefore do their own verification and sanitation.