Excelsior JET 4.8 review

Excelsior JET suite is a complete solution for protection, acceleration and deployment of your Java applications. Excelsior JET Op

License: Shareware File size: 66570K Developer: Excelsior, LLC.

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Excelsior JET suite is a complete solution for protection, acceleration and deployment of your Java applications.

Excelsior JET Optimizer converts your application's classes and jars into highly optimized Intel x86 code and creates a native executable for Microsoft Windows or Linux platform.

Excelsior JET Runtime is a complete Java Virtual Machine that works with both Java classes and the executables produced by the Optimizer. It implements the Java SE platform, versions 5.0 and 1.4.2.

Excelsior JET Installation Toolkit facilitates rapid creation of complete installation packages for your optimized Java applications. Installation of the JRE on end-user machines is not required.

Excelsior JET Optimizer and Runtime have passed the Java Compatibility Kit test suite and are certified Java Compatible on a number of platforms.

Here are some key features of "Excelsior JET":
Transform your Java application's classes and jars into conventional binary executables (EXEs and DLLs on Windows, executables and shared objects on Linux) that run without the Sun JRE
Optimize applications that use any part of J2SE 5.0 or 1.4.2 platform API YESYES
Optimize applications that rely on the Endorsed Standards Override Mechanism
Intergrate the resulting executables with C/C++/Deplhi via JNI and Invocation API
Intergrate the resulting executables with C++/VB6/VBA via COM (Windows only)
Optimize applications essentially relying on dynamic class loading
Optimize JIT compiler's cache with the AOT compiler
Reorder code and data segments of the resulting executables for faster startup and memory use reduction
Turn your Java applications into Windows services using the supplied API and tools
Pack resources (images, audio, etc.) into the resulting executables
Create application setups based on Excelsior Installer (Windows only) or a third-party setup authoring tool
Create compact Excelsior Installer-based setups (Windows only)
Make applications display a native splash screen instantly upon startup
NEW! Generate trial executables
NEW! Create arbitrary shortcuts with custom icons in Excelsior Installer-based setups (Windows only)
NEW! Create file associations in Excelsior Installer-based setups (Windows only)

Requirements:
Java 1.4.2 or later

Installation:

Change the current directory to /usr/local or another directory of your choice.
Run the executable and follow the screen prompts. This will extract the product files into ./jet4.1-eval.
Refer to the file ./jet4.1-eval/readme/readme.txt for further instructions.

Limitations:
30-day evaluation

What's New in This Release:
Excelsior JET may now considerably reduce the disk footprint of your installed Java applications.
This version also allows you further decrease the download size of your software product and delivers higher application performance on hardware that supports parallel execution.