I think this is more of a legal convenience than anything else. It probably would be an extended JVM if Google weren't concerned about Sun/Oracle's litigious na

I think this is more of a legal convenience than anything else. It probably would be an extended JVM if Google weren't concerned about Sun/Oracle's litigious nature when it comes to extending the JVM. Really it's a VM that runs JVM code, even though it needs an extra translation step. It's not like there's anything else that targets it afaik.