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| author | Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> | 2012-09-26 10:00:20 +0300 |
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| committer | Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> | 2012-09-26 10:00:20 +0300 |
| commit | 447a062e23822499df7b357ded1f813aff403146 (patch) | |
| tree | c69416a4e848bc092e85b2cfcc43760a0c026a4f | |
| parent | 0f4e1ad25148f3fea7f8a926da43a111103f1a47 (diff) | |
| download | jato-447a062e23822499df7b357ded1f813aff403146.tar.gz | |
README layout updates
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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@@ -1,19 +1,21 @@ -# What is Jato +# Jato VM + +## About Jato is an implementation of the Java virtual machine. It includes a VM and a JIT compiler for the x86 machine architecture and supports the JNI API. Jato uses Boehm GC as its garbage collector and relies on GNU Classpath to provide essential Java APIs. -# Compilation and Installation +## Compilation and Installation -## Getting the Sources +### Getting the Sources Fetch the latest sources with: git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/java/jato/jato.git -## Build Requirements +### Build Requirements Before installing Jato ensure you have the following software installed on your system: @@ -36,7 +38,7 @@ Archlinux: pacman -S eclipse-ecj classpath libzip libffi -## Building GNU Classpath +### Building GNU Classpath GNU Classpath is no longer packaged with Ubuntu 10.10 and later versions so you need to build and install it yourself to run Jato. First download the sources from: @@ -56,13 +58,13 @@ and install it to /usr/local: sudo make install -## Building the Software +### Building the Software Compile the VM: make -## Testing and Installation +### Testing and Installation You can run all Jato unit and regression tests with the command: @@ -81,7 +83,7 @@ You can now install Jato with: make install -# Using Jato +## Using Jato Jato uses the same command line options as 'java'. You can execute a single class with: @@ -99,7 +101,7 @@ You can also execute a Jar file with: Jato also supports variety of command line options for debugging and tracing purposes. See the file Documentation/options.txt for details. -# Copyright and License +## Copyright and License Copyright (C) 2005-2012 Pekka Enberg and contributors @@ -121,7 +123,7 @@ following clarification and special exception: you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. -# Thanks and Acknowledgements +## Thanks and Acknowledgements I would like to thank the following people and organizations for supporting Jato development: |