jde list: I wrote to Dave Shields, one of the original authors of the Jikes compiler, and asked him about the future of the product. With his permission, his reply is forwarded below. Note that the compiler is an open source project now, and he has moved on to other work. The Jikes project page is at <http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/jikes/index.html>. If there are any compiler writers out there who would like to contribute to Jikes, I'm sure the team would be glad for your help! =========== >To: Doug Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:28:02 -0400 >Subject: Re: Jikes alive? > >Doug, > >Jikes will continue to develop, though probably at a slower pace since >Philippe and I have moved on to other projects (IBM supported our work >full-time for almost four years, and it was hard to justify continued >involvement in what is, after all, a research project and not a product). >Since Jikes is now open source, the pace of development will be determined >by the skills and time commitment of those interested in working on it. > >As for -bootclasspath, someone offered to work on this last December, but I >haven't heard from him since, so we'll just have to wait until someone >steps forward to do this. As for the "debug interface", this is just the >creation of the LocalVariableTable. It is supposed to work, and any >problems should be reported via our Jitterbug bug tracking system. > >thanks, >dave ================= Doug Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
