Coroutines for Java Lukas Stadler Welcome! This page contains information about the experimental coroutine implementation for the HotSpot Java VM. The implementation is part of the Da Vinci Machine Project, a larger effort to bring features to the JVM that help dynamic language implementations. But coroutines aren't only useful for dynamic languages, they also have many advantages for Java programmers. Please read the introductory pdf for a more in-depth overview and a bit of history.

Introduction, API, etc.:

• CoroIntroduction.pdf
  If you're only interested in the API you can skip to page 17.
  
  

Building

• Get mercurial and the mercurial forest extension.
  
  
• Get the mlvm repository from http://hg.openjdk.java.net/mlvm/mlvm:
  hg fclone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/mlvm/mlvm patches
  
  
• Follow the instructions from the README.txt contained within the mlvm repo.
  
  

Pre-built binaries:

• Coroutine VM SDK Linux x64 - product build
  
  
• Coroutine VM SDK Linux x64 - debug build
  
  

Publications

• Lukas Stadler:
  Serializable Coroutines for the HotSpot™ Java Virtual Machine
  Master's thesis, Johannes Kepler University Linz, February 2011
  
  
• Lukas Stadler, Thomas Würthinger, Christian Wimmer:
  Efficient Coroutines for the Java Platform
  In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Programming in Java, pages 20–28. ACM Press, 2010.
  
  
• Lukas Stadler, Christian Wimmer, Thomas Würthinger, Hanspeter Mössenböck, John Rose:
  Lazy Continuations for Java Virtual Machines
  In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Programming in Java, pages 143–152. ACM Press, 2009.