JavaScript jvm implementation
You may have a look at the bck2brwsr (aka java.net HTML)
- it is a VM that transforms java byte code into JavaScript (Bck2Brwsr Virtual Machine)
- provides a Java based wrapper to HTML (HTML via Java APIs)
The scope of the project is not to execute any existing java library. (see http://wiki.apidesign.org/wiki/Bck2Brwsr)
There are two nice examples on the web:
- a calculator, that gives good technical insight (http://xelfi.cz/bck2brwsr/)
- a nice space invader demo as a proof of concept (JAYDAY 2013 java summit page)
To get started with a working example (needs Maven and JDK7):
Step 1: load archetype
mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apidesign.bck2brwsr \ -DarchetypeArtifactId=bck2brwsr-archetype-html-sample -DarchetypeVersion=0.7.2 \ -DarchetypeRepository=https://maven.java.net/content/repositories/releases/
Step 2: build HTML page and dependencies and pack as ZIP file
mvn install# produces bck-1.0-SNAPSHOT-bck2brwsr.zip
Step 3: unpack ZIP
cd target; unzip bck-1.0-SNAPSHOT-bck2brwsr.zip creating: public_html/ creating: public_html/lib/ extracting: public_html/lib/emul-0.7.2-rt.jar extracting: public_html/lib/javaquery.api-0.7.2.jar inflating: public_html/bck2brwsr.js extracting: public_html/bck-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar inflating: public_html/index.html
Step 4: open index.html with your browser
Not sure how mature jsJVM is but looks like something which you would be interested in. As the page says, it's JVM written in Javascript.