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Re: The Road to 1.0
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Chris Gray |
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Re: The Road to 1.0 |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:05:02 +0100 (CET) |
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Aaron M. Renn wrote:
> The Classpath project has reached a milestone of sorts. Five years ago
> in March 1998, the Classpath project was born when I started work on a
> java.net implementation for the Japhar JVM project. Shortly thereafter,
> Paul Fisher and Brian Jones stopped working on Japhar in order to
> concentrate on writing a class library. Thus Classpath came into being
> as a separate project with the inauspcious name of "JCL".
>
> Happy Birthday, Classpath!
Hip hip hurrah!
I've been watching most of the time: I joined the Java world when I
downloaded Kaffe in mid/late 1998, and joined Acunia in November of that
year. In that time Classpath has gone from an "interesting idea" to a
solution I would now recommend to anyone starting an academic or
commercial VM project. (In fact I did recommend just that to someone on
comp.lang.java.machine a while ago).
My future is a bit open just now (I'm being "downsized"), but it's likely
to feature VMs and/or open source. Who knows, I may one day find myself
contributing to Classpath. :) Until then, many happy returns and copious
congratulations!
--
Chris Gray
VM Architect, ACUNIA