## The Kawa language framework

Kawa is a framework written in Java for implementing high-level and dynamic languages, compiling them into Java bytecodes.

The Kawa distributions includes of other programming languages besides Scheme, including XQuery (Qexo) and Emacs Lisp (JEmacs).

For a technical overview of Kawa, see these http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/internals/index.html. Javadoc generated documentation of the Kawa classes is also available. The packages `gnu.bytecode`, `gnu.math`, `gnu.lists`, `gnu.xml`, `gnu.expr`, `gnu.mapping`, and `gnu.text`, are used by Kawa, and distributed with it, but may be independently useful.

This article explains how to use `gnu.bytecode` to compile regular expressions to bytecode.