# Endive and the Next Chapter of WebAssembly on the JVM

DevFeed: [Endive and the Next Chapter of WebAssembly on the JVM](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/endive-and-the-next-chapter-of-webassembly-on-the-jvm-15135.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/endive-and-the-next-chapter-of-webassembly-on-the-jvm>)

Author: Andrea Peruffo

Published: 2026-05-26T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Bytecode Alliance](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/bytecode-alliance.md>)

Topics: [WebAssembly](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-assembly.md>), [Java](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/java.md>), [Compiler](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/compiler.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

Tags: [announcement](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announcement.md>), [compiler](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compiler.md>), [fork](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fork.md>), [java](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/java.md>), [jvm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jvm.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [webassembly](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webassembly.md>)

## AI overview

Bytecode Alliance announces Endive, a fork of Chicory and a hosted project for running WebAssembly on the JVM. The project aims to let Java developers embed, package, test, and deploy Wasm modules through familiar Java workflows, while integrating the experimental Redline compiler for native machine-code compilation.

## Source excerpt

Announcement: Endive begins In September 2023, a small group of contributors set out to answer a simple question: can WebAssembly run on the JVM with zero native dependencies? The project they built, Chicory, proved it could. Within two years it was powering JRuby's Prism parser, a pure-Java SQLite driver, an embedded PostgreSQL, a pure-Java QuickJs runtime, TrinoDB Python UDFs, and many more. What started as an experiment became infrastructure.