Documentation

• README (CVS)

  Basic information on Kaffe, what it supports, and how to build and run it.

• WHATSNEW (CVS)

  Information on what's included in the latest release.

• FAQ.Known-Bugs (CVS)

• FAQ.platform-status (CVS)

• FAQs for building Kaffe:
  • FAQ.requiredlibraries (CVS)

  • FAQ.awt (CVS)

  • FAQ.sound (CVS)

  • FAQ.embedded (CVS)

  • FAQ.cross-compiling (CVS)

  • FAQ.classlibrary-compile (CVS)

  • FAQ.pthreads (CVS)

  • FAQ.install-root (CVS)

  • FAQ.references (CVS)

• FAQs for various ports:
  • FAQ.linux (CVS)

  • FAQ.win32 (CVS)

  • FAQ.hpux (CVS)

  • FAQ.amigaos (CVS)

  • FAQ.ps2linux (CVS)

  • FAQ.BeOS (CVS)

  • FAQ.ncr (CVS)

  • FAQ.blackfin (CVS)

  • FAQ.arm (CVS)

  • FAQ.drops (CVS)

  • FAQ.freebsd (CVS)

• FAQs for Internationalization (i18n) / Localization (l18n):
  • FAQ.charsets (CVS)

• FAQs for various applications:
  • FAQ.hotjava (CVS)

• FAQs for developers:
  • FAQ.code-layout (CVS)

  • FAQ.coding-style (CVS)

  • FAQ.gnu-classpath (CVS)

  • FAQ.nativemethods (CVS)

  • FAQ.libffi (CVS)

  • FAQ.bignum (CVS)

  • FAQ.feedback (CVS)

• FAQs for Kaffe's build system:
  • FAQ.staticnative (CVS)

  • FAQ.automake (CVS)

  • FAQ.libtool (CVS)

  • FAQ.depend (CVS)

  • FAQ.kaffemd (CVS)

  • FAQ.kjc (CVS)

• FAQs for VM internals:
  • FAQ.jit3 (CVS)

  • FAQ.dmalloc (CVS)

  • FAQ.gcstrategy (CVS)

  • FAQ.block (CVS)

  • FAQ.class-states (CVS)

  • FAQ.jsignal (CVS)

  • FAQ.locks (CVS)

  • FAQ.unicode (CVS)

  • FAQ.gcj (CVS)

  • FAQ.dns (CVS)

• FAQs for debugging and profiling with Kaffe:
  • FAQ.debugging (CVS)

  • FAQ.xdebugging (CVS)

  • FAQ.profiler (CVS)

  • FAQ.xprofiler (CVS)

  • FAQ.timing (CVS)

  • FAQ.mauve (CVS)

  • FAQ.benchmarking (CVS)

Documentation Found Elsewhere

• Porting Kaffe
  • Porting Kaffe to a new platform

    By Edouard Parmelan.
    NOTE: Edouard G. Parmelan died Monday September 17, 2001 in a motorbike accident while he was going to work. We make a copy of this document from his old website. Any comment and suggestions about Kaffe's porting issues are welcome to kaffe@kaffe.org.

  • Porting Kaffe to the IA-64 Architecture

    By Samuel K. Sanseri.

• Architecture / Source Code Layout
  • Architecture of Kaffe

    By Sadaf Mumtaz and Naveed Ahmad.

  • Kaffe Notes

    By Ren-Song Ko.

• Kaffe Internals
  • Trampolines

    By Kiyo Inaba.

  • sysdepCallMethod

    By Kiyo Inaba.

• Garbage Collection
  • No Silver Bullet - Garbage Collection for Java in Embedded Systems

    Describes Kaffe's garbage collector.

  • JavaWorld: Java's garbage-collected heap

  • Chapter 9 of Inside the Java 2 Virtual Machine: Garbage Collection

  • ResearchIndex: Citations of "Mostly Parallel Garbage Collection" by Boehm, Demers, Shenker

• Overviews
  • Kaffe - Past, Present, Future

    Dalibor Topic prepared the slides for FOSDEM 2005, describing how Kaffe.org grows up in many aspects since 1996. The slides are good for the ones who would like to see the history, developments, creations, and free/open source movements behind Kaffe.

  • Kaffe's expert group in CMSC731

• Related Papers from Virtual Machines based on Kaffe
  • JIT4 (implemented in Transvirtual's version of Kaffe)

    Mike Chen has put online the paper he presented at the JVM 2002 conference entitled "Targeting Dynamic Compilation for Embedded Systems", which is a new JIT which he implemented on Transvirtual's internal version of Kaffe (which was released under the GPL as part of PocketLinux). It's definitely worth a read, especially if you are into compilers. I'd love to see "jit4" integrated into a future release of Kaffe.

  • Godmar Back's thesis on KaffeOS

    There are some earlier papers here.

  • Links: Kaffe-based VMs

    Links to related projects, such as JanosVM, Latte, Jessica, Gilgul, etc.