On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Etienne M. Gagnon wrote:
> John Keiser wrote:
> > Are there any other VM implementors (or
> > other types of projects) out there using Classpath?
Just a quick note on the functionality of kissme.
It currently runs many console Java apps, the most complex of which is the
kopi/kjc java compiler. It does file and net operations as per a normal
JVM. I have recently worked a lot on the reflection capabilities, they are
pretty complete. The garbage collector works (although it's a primitive
mark/sweep collector). The VM supports JNI 1.1 and does allow dynamic
linking to shared libraries.
AWT support isn't working, I've tried to get it going with the classpath
code, but I never have any luck. Is there anyone who would like to help me
work on this?
I'm working on an experimental run-time optimiser that translates Java
bytecodes to i386 assembly and then to machine code, so far this is very
much in development though.
There are some bugs related to a class referring to its own type while
executing a static initialiser.
On the whole though it's pretty solid, much of that is thanks to
the native code from Classpath!
John Leuner
