Tim Ellison wrote: > Good work Andrey and everyone in the MPD (getting the Intel lingo ;-) ) > > I appreciate just how much work is involved in making such a large > contribution into the project -- you guys are stars! > > Go Harmony!
Same here! a *huge* thanks, you guys rock! > Regards > Tim > > Andrey Chernyshev wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> I'm happy to announce the contribution of the DRL Virtual Machine on >> behalf of >> Intel. >> I have described in the bottom of this message how you can try it for >> yourself. >> >> The code is a result of efforts of Intel Middleware Products Division >> team. The >> archive with the contribution is uploaded to the following location: >> >> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-438 >> >> The issue contains two zip archives: >> >> DRLVM_src_20060502_1806_Harmony.zip >> - The DRLVM source code contribution, containing the following >> components: >> VM (or VM core) >> GC >> JIT >> Bytecode verifier >> Kernel classes >> OS layer >> >> DRLVM_src_20060502_1806_Patches_for_Harmony.zip >> - A few patches that should be applied to Harmony class libraries >> in order to integrate them with DRLVM. >> >> We checked that the JRE combined from the DRLVM and the Harmony class >> libraries >> is capable of running Eclipse and Ant. It was tested with Harmony >> classes taken >> at 03/13 (plus some contributions existed to that date, such as >> HARMONY-39 and >> HARMONY-88) on Windows and Linux IA32. >> >> The building system included with the DRLVM is entirely written on Ant >> and is >> capable of producing a workable JRE combined from DRLVM and Harmony >> class libraries (we have intentionally included the compilation of class >> libraries code into the DRLVM building system to give an example how the >> native >> code for the complex multi-component project can be built with Ant). >> Both VM and >> Class Libraries can be built with MSVC or Intel C compiler on Windows >> and gcc or >> Intel C compiler on Linux IA32. Eclipse 3.1.1 compiler is used for >> compiling the >> Java code. >> >> DRLVM communicates with the Harmony class libraries through the set of >> kernel >> classes and VMI interface, as described in the Harmony Class Library >> Porting >> Documentation. We had to add the java.lang.SringBuffer into the kernel >> classes >> set for now since it is tighten to the java.lang.String in our >> implementation. >> >> The DRLVM is not yet a complete full-functional product, there is a >> plenty of >> things to do such as 1.5 support or missing some of JVMTI/JNI capabilities. >> Please refer to the README.txt and Developers Guide (located in the 'doc' >> directory) provided with the contribution. However, we hope that the >> existing VM >> implementation, in conjunction with the Harmony class libraries and >> Eclipse, at >> least should be able to provide the self-hosting environment where >> developers >> can edit, compile and run Java code using Eclipse, execute Ant (you can try >> to rebuild the DRLVM and Harmony class libraries by executing it's Ant >> building >> system on top of the previously built DRLVM image). >> >> IMPORTANT NOTE: the building system, by default, downloads all the >> necessary >> software and libraries such as Eclipse, APR, LogCXX or zlib directly >> from the >> Internet, BY RUNNING THE DRLVM BUILD YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE LICENSE TERMS >> for the >> software and libraries used for the DRLVM compilation and linking. >> Please refer >> to the README.txt provided with the contribution for more detailed >> information >> how to build DRLVM and which software/libraries are used for that. >> >> >> HOW TO TRY IT: >> >> To build the DRLVM, just extract the both zip archives into the same >> directory, >> set ANT_HOME and JAVA_HOME, run the "build update" and then "build". See >> the >> README.txt for more details, including the software required (you'll >> need some >> JRE, C/C++ compiler, Ant and Svn tool to checkout classlibs). >> >> Note that the DRLVM may not work with the most recent version of Harmony >> class >> libraries since the latter is constantly changing (the last version of >> classes >> we were adopting the DRLVM for was taken at 03/13). Some work will still be >> needed to integrate it with the most recent version of the class libraries. >> >> You are welcome to try it and share your opinion! >> >> Thank you, >> Andrey Chernyshev >> Intel Middleware Products Division >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > -- Stefano. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
