* Java
+ <b>This is an outline on how to support Java, actual
+ implementations of ideas like this can be found <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0109845/">here</a></b>
+
+
It would be interesting to support the Java language as part
of the Mono project.
Microsoft J# compiler. We could then allow the migration of
Java applications to the Mono runtime.
+** Native compiler
+
+ Although a native compiler can be built, and probably should be
+ built using an existing compiler, a short term solution is to
+ build a translator from Java class files to the ECMA CIL images.
+
+ This has the advantage that we can use an existing and tested
+ Java compiler to generate the code, and then we can use an automated
+ code compiler that compiles Java VM bytecodes to CIL bytecodes.
+
** The translator.
It would be interesting to write a semantic translator that