SableVM is a Clean room design of Java platform bytecode Interpreter (computing) implementing the Java virtual machine specification, second edition.

SableVM Project was started from the ground up to build a robust, extremely portable, efficient, and fully specifications-compliant (JVM spec, Java Native Interface, Invocation interface, Debug interface, ...) Java Virtual Machine that would be easy to maintain and to extend .

The core engine is an .

This simplicity makes SableVM s source code very accessible and easy to understand for new users/programmers.

SableVM is Free Software — it is licensed under the less restrictive GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). It also makes use of GNU Classpath (copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation FSF) which is licensed under the GPL_linking_exception.

SableVM is the first Open Source virtual machine for Java to include the support for JVMDI (Java Virtual Machine Debugging Interface) and JDWP (Java Debug Wire Protocol). These standard Java debugging interfaces are used for example by Eclipse_(computing) to provide a rich and user-friendly Java development environment.

SableVM is being developed by a team of hackers who contribute to the project. Besides mailing lists, programmer can usually be reached via an Internet Relay Chat channel on irc.sablevm.org (irc.freenode.net alias) #sablevm.

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