Open Source Java Interpreters

MinGW: A native Windows port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), with freely distributable import libraries and header files for building native Windows applications; includes extensions to the MSVC runtime to support C99 functionality. All of MinGW's software will execute on the 64bit Windows platforms.

The home page for the Saxon XSLT 3.0, XQuery 3.1, and XPath 3.1 processor has moved to http://www.saxonica.com/. Information on this site is no longer kept up to date. Sourceforge was the home for open-source versions of the Saxon XSLT 3.0, XQuery 3.1, and XPath 3.1, processor from 1999 until 2022. From version 12.0 in January 2023, you need to visit the Saxonica site at http://www.saxonica.com/ for the latest information and releases.

CLIPS is a forward-chaining rule-based programming language written in C that also provides procedural and object-oriented programming facilities.

JamVM is a new Java Virtual Machine conforming to the JVM specification edition 2 (blue book). It is extremely small - stripped on PowerPC ~110K, Intel 80K. However, unlike other small VMs it supports the full spec, inc. object finalisation and JNI.

Tcl/Java consists of two pieces of software. Jacl is an implementation of a Tcl interpreter written entirely in Java. Tcl Blend is a Tcl extension that provides access to Java from inside Tcl. One can prototype Java code using Tcl, and much more.

Jython is a Java implementation of the Python language. It allows users to compile Python source code to Java byte codes, and run the resulting bytecodes on any Java Virtual Machine. It is the successor to JPython.

Jasmin is an interpreter for the x86 assembly language with a full-featured development environment aimed for educational purposes.

The PHP script engine for Java. --- Run PHP applications within any J2EE server or servlet engine and/or connect script engines like PHP with Java or .NET back ends efficiently.

Lightweight, fast, Java-centric Lua interpreter written for JME and JSE, with string, table, package, math, io, os, debug, coroutine & luajava libraries, JSR-223 bindings, all metatags, weak tables and unique direct lua-to-java-bytecode compiling.

Community Z Tools Project (CZT): Tools for editing, typechecking and animating Z specifications and related notations. Includes a Java framework for building formal methods tools. NOTE: development of CZT has now moved to GitHub: https://github.com/community-z-users/czt

Joost is a Java implementation of the Streaming Transformation for XML (STX) language (see http://stx.sourceforge.net/)

Jason is a fully-fledged interpreter for an extended version of AgentSpeak, a BDI agent-oriented logic programming language, and is implemented in Java. Using JADE a multi-agent system can be distributed over a network effortlessly. This project was moved to https://jason-lang.github.io

Lua interpreter for Android written in pure Java.

NOTE: Yacas and yagy development has moved to github. The new repositories are located at https://github.com/grzegorzmazur/yacas and https://github.com/grzegorzmazur/yagy . The mailing list has been moved over to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/yacas . The downloads section at sourceforge will be kept up to date for the foreseable future. Yacas is an easy to use, general purpose computer algebra system. It uses its own programming language designed for symbolic as well as arbitrary-precision numerical computations. The system comes with a library of scripts and extensive documentation. Yagy (http://sourceforge.net/p/yagy) provides full yacas experience wrapped in a simple and intuitive graphical interface.

ESS-MODEL: The fastest and easiest to use UML reversing tool! With ESS-MODEL you can view class diagrams from your code in the time that other tools are still busy loading. Source is written in Delphi. More info: http://essmodel.sourceforge.net

JBasic is a traditional BASIC language intepreter written in Java for command line or embedded use. It supports conventional original DOS and MSBASIC syntax, plus some modern extensions for supporting threads, JDBC, etc. JBasic can be run directly from a shell.

SableVM is a clean-room, highly portable and efficient Java virtual machine. Its goals are to be reasonably small, fast, and compliant with the various specifications (JVM specification, JNI, invocation interface, etc.).

Powerful command line and configuration file parsing for C++, Python, Ruby and Java (others to come). This tool provides many features, such as separate treatment for options, variables, and flags, unrecognized object detection, prefixes and much more.

JPype is an effort to allow python programs full access to java class libraries. This is achieved not through re-implementing Python, as Jython/JPython has done, but rather through interfacing at the native level in both Virtual Machines. Maintenance and evolution of the project has moved! please see http://www.jpype.org for the latest version

GUESS, or the Graph Exploration System, is a system and language for visualizing and manipulating graph structures and creating new visualization applications.

An implementation of the language described in "Karel the Robot: A Gentle Introduction to The Art of Programming" by Richard Pattis et al. Both Java and C/Unix versions are available.

SISC is an extensible Java based interpreter of the algorithmic language Scheme. SISC uses modern interpretation techniques, and handily outperforms all existing Java interpreters (often by more than an order of magnitude).

Web interface to a prolog interpreter, where you can load prolog programs, do consults, and visualize the resolution tree in SVG.

JoSQL (Java Objects SQL) provides SQL capabilities for querying, ordering and grouping of collections of Java objects (POJOs). It allows a SQL statement to be applied to the collection of objects and the matching set returned, ordered and grouped.

JScript is Java Interpreter that parse and execute pure java code and share the resource with current JVM. In addition, a java command line console is included. It's easy to create script program in Java grammar by it.