Re: The Road to 1.0

[Chris Gray]

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