Compiler to translate Java bytecode to platform-independent C code before runtime?

Question

I\'m looking for a compiler to translate Java bytecode to platform-independent C code before runtime (Ahead-of-Time compilation).

I should then be able to use a sta

Answer 1

GCJ has this capability, but it hasn't got great support for Java features past 1.4, and Swing support is likely to be troublesome. In practice though, the HotSpot JIT compiler beats all the ahead-of-time compilers for Java. See benchmarks from Excelsior JET. To clarify: GCJ converts java source/bytecode to natively compiled code

Toba will convert (old) Java bytecode to C source. However, it hasn't been updated since Java 1.1. It may be helpful to partially facilitate the porting, but it just can't handle all the complex libraries Java has.