Re: address@hidden: Re: [Jikesrvm-researchers] Congratulations on Jikes-RVM 2.0 - questions about licensing.]

[Chris Gray]

Mark Wielaard wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Found on the debian-java mailinglist.
>
> The Jikes VM is interesting because they say it is written mostly in java.
> <http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/jikesrvm/>
> And they encourage to develop a Free Classlibrary for it.
> (It would ofcourse be better if we could convince them to donate their
> current class library to Classpath.)
> I am currently investigating the KissMe VM which is already fairly
> integrated with Classpath. If someone else wants to investigate how
> hard it would be to support Jikes VM that would be really nice.

I would also invite people to look at ACUNIA's Wonka VM,
<URL:http://wonka.acunia.com>.  Like IBM, we already developed our
own class libraries, but a Classpath/Wonka hybrid would appear to be
feasible from both a legal and a technical point of view.  Of more
practical value (probably) would be a gcj-Wonka synthesis.

Regards

Chris Gray
VM Architect, ACUNIA