Show HN: Webassembly4J Run WebAssembly from Java
Wasmtime4J – Java bindings for Wasmtime http://github.com/tegmentum/wasmtime4j WAMR4J – Java bindings for WebAssembly Micro Runtime http://github.com/tegmentum/wasmr4j
WebAssembly4J – a unified Java API that allows running WebAssembly across different engines http://github.com/tegmentum/webassembly4j
The motivation was that Java currently has multiple emerging WebAssembly runtimes, but each exposes its own API. If you want to experiment with different engines, you have to rewrite the integration layer each time.
WebAssembly4J provides a single API while allowing different runtime providers underneath.
Goals of the project: Run WebAssembly from Java applications Allow cross-engine comparison of runtimes Make WebAssembly runtimes more accessible to Java developers Provide a stable interface while runtimes evolve
Currently supported engines: Wasmtime WAMR Chicory GraalWasm
To support both legacy and modern Java environments the project targets: Java 8 (JNI bindings) Java 11 Java 22+ (Panama support)
Artifacts are published to Maven Central so they can be added directly to existing projects.
I’d be very interested in feedback from people working on Java + WebAssembly integrations or runtime implementations.