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Lava II Distribution

The distribution of Lava II contains the lavac compiler, installation instructions (in the Readme file), test suites and (since version 0.19) the example presented at the Lava demo at ECOOP 2002. See the lavac description for a quick overview of features, an account of their current state of implementation and of the differences between the following versions:

lavac_alpha_0.21.zip (744.152 Bytes) - many bugfixes
lavac_alpha_0.20.zip (629.750 Bytes) - many bugfixes and almost complete support for inner classes
lavac_alpha_0.19.zip (720.000 Bytes) - several bugfixes and unrestricted use of unanticipated delegation.
lavac_alpha_0.17.zip (623.394 Bytes) - several bugfixes.
lavac_alpha_0.16.zip (625.805 Bytes) - removed limitations in use of static fields.
lavac_alpha_0.15.zip (894.188 Bytes) - first publicly available lavac version.

After the download you might want to register for the lava-talk and lava-news mailing list.

NetBeans Integration of lavac

If you do not like programming with command line tools, here is an extension of NetBeans that uses the lavac compiler and provides syntax highlighting for Lava keywords:

NetBeans-dev-200205161204-lava-syntax-highlight.zip (16.154.584 Bytes).
For installation instructions see the file netbeansIntegration.txt (also included in the lavac release since version 0.20)

Optional Support Packages

If you want to run the Lava II test suites or if you want to extend them in order to expose a bug you need some third-party packages (JUnit and BCEL), which are provided for convenience in

lavac_support.zip (394.853 Bytes).

This archive does not need to be reloaded with every new release (it does not need to be loaded at all if you just want to use Lava). See section 5 of the Readme file in the Lava II distribution for information on how to install, use and extend the test suites.

Lava I Download (obsolete)

For historical completness we provide also links to an implementation of the initial design of Lava, Lava I, version 0.54. However, be aware that it is pre-alpha software whose development has been stoped in 1998. The two archives contain modified implementations of the compiler and JVM of JDK 1.0.2 from Sun Microsystems, which may be used only for evaluation purposes:

Compiler + Solaris version of VM: lavaI-0.54.tar.gz (2506615 Bytes)

Compiler + Win32 version of VM: lavaI-0.54.win.zip (1048020 Bytes)