Indeed. IBM has multi and varied interests in all aspects of Java. I think of the Jikes folk as VM developers rather than class library developers, but I may be doing them an injustice because I'm not familiar with their classpath contributions.
Regards, Tim Mark Wielaard wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 11:44 +0100, Tim Ellison wrote: > >>There are two distinct groups within IBM doing class library work -- >>hey, it's a big place! >> >>One group provides a robust J2SE based on the Sun libraries for many IBM >>products/platforms [1]. The other group has no access to Sun code and >>provides a (similarly robust <g>) smaller set of IBM-authored libraries >>for embedded product offerings [2]. > > > You seem to forget group 3 (wow, IBM is big!) that produced JikesRVM and > that actually switched from those robust IBM-authored libraries to GNU > Classpath <double g!> :) > > IBM research published an interesting paper about this that is worth a > read. > > The Jikes Research Virtual Machine project: Buliding an open-source > research community > B. Alpern, S. Augart, S.M. Blackburn, M. Butrico, A. Cocchi, P Cheng, J. > Dolby, S. Fink, D. Grove, M. Hind, K.S. McKinley, M. Mergen, J.E.B. > Moss, T. Ngo, V. Sarkar, and M. Trapp. > IBM Systems Journal, Vol 44, No 2, 2005. > > http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/442/alpern.pdf > > Cheers, > > Mark -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK.
