Retargetable code generator for Java bytecode

The massive growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web has lead to research into programming languages for the development of applications in heterogeneous, network-wide distributed environments. Java is an object-oriented language for such an environment and the Java programming language environment provides a portable, interpreted, high-performance, simple programming language. Bytecode is an intermediate code for the Java language and it enables the development of applications on multiple platforms in heterogeneous, distributed networks, but it takes a lot of time to execute bytecode because an interpretation method is used. We design and implement a retargetable code generation system, which can be systematically reconfigured to generate code for a variety of distinct target computers. Using the system, we realize the code generator which translates the bytecode being produced by the Java compiler into native target code. We use the ACK system to do the work easily.