Components
Eclipse OMR is made up of shared, reusable, open-source core components for building language runtimes. These components include:
- Garbage Collector (GC): a garbage collection framework for managed heaps. Eclipse OMR includes several implementations: mark-and-sweep, generational, and parallel scavenger.
- Port Library (port): a platform abstraction (porting) library.
- Thread Library (thread): a cross platform threading library.
- Utility Library (util): a variety of utility libraries that provide functions for building cross platform runtimes.
- Virtual Machine (VM): APIs to manage per-interpreter and per-thread contexts.
- Trace Library (omrtrace): a tracing library for communication with IBM Health Center monitoring tools.
- Signal Handling Compatibility Library (omrsigcompat): a signal handling compatibility library.
- Compiler: for native code generation.
- Diagnostic services: (to be contributed) Health Center provides a live view of runtime details, such as GC statistics and method profiling.