Nailgun is a client, protocol and server for running Java programs from the command line without incurring the JVM startup overhead. Programs run in the server (which is implemented in Java), and are triggered by the client (C and Python clients available), which handles all I/O. This project contains the server and examples.

• Last release 4 years ago

  no release in 18 months

• Ships fairly regularly

  a new release about every 2 months

• Nearly every release is documented

  notes for 7 of 7 stable releases

• Nothing withdrawn

  no release was ever pulled

• 4 years old

  7 releases · first in 2022