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 _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
