Jikes RVM 2.2.1 is released

[Julian Dolby]

We're happy to announce that Jikes RVM version 2.2.1 is now available from
the developerworks website (
http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/projects/jikesrvm).

 Highlights of this release include:
  + Jikes RVM is now based entirely on the GNU Classpath libraries.  The
prior hybrid library solution is still supported in this release, but will
be removed in subsequent releases.
  + Jikes RVM can run a significant subset of the Eclipse IDE.
  + Separate name spaces for classloaders.
  + Implementation of JNI for Linux/PowerPC.
  + The addition of an on-stack replacement mechanism to enable the
adaptive system to transfer execution from long-running baseline compiled
frames and to recover from speculative optimizations.  More details can be
found in a CGO 2003 paper.
  + Extensions for PowerPC hardware performance counters on AIX 5.

Other notes:
  + Future release of Jikes RVM will not support using the OTI class
libraries (hybrid library configuration).
  + We continue to anticipate moving completely to JMTk and removing
support for the watson collectors in a future release of Jikes RVM.This
should happen in the 2.2.2 release depending on the performance of the JMTk
MarkSweep collector.

A number of other miscellaneous bugs in version 2.2.0 are fixed in the
2.2.1 release.  See the developerWorks bug tracking software tool and CVS
history for details.