We have recently made some important updates to our Microbusiness Licensing Program. In case you are hearing about it for the first time, the idea is to let very small companies purchase our most popular product, Excelsior JET Professional Edition for Windows, at much reduced prices. Only companies with five or less people on staff used to be accepted into the Program.
Effective September 15th, 2008, Excelsior JET for Linux is also available through the Program and non-IT companies are eligible to apply if they employ ten people or less.
Apply now or learn more about the Program
As you may have read in our August 1st announcement, Excelsior JET 6.5 will provide support for the Equinox OSGi runtime, enabling you to protect Eclipse RCP applications from reverse engineering and tampering.
We have just published Excelsior JET 6.5 beta 2, along with two natively compiled RCP applications to illustrate its capabilities:
Here is what’s new in beta 2:
Eclipse RCP Support
- Numerous bug fixes and overall stability improvements
- Over 90% of Eclipse Unit Tests have passed on the compiled Eclipse IDE
Performance improvements
- java.util.zip.*: access to jar/zip archives speeded up
- JNI: substantially reduced overhead of calling Java methods from native methods
Tags: eclipse, osgi, rcp
GCJ if you want an easy win, otherwise Excelsior JET on 32-bit x86 and 64-bit HotSpot on 64-bit x86:
A Java Compiler Performance Study by Jan-Jaap van Horssen
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