Jikes RVM, which formerly required a proprietary (Sun) JVM to write out the boot image, no longer needs that proprietary VM. You can now use Kaffe to write out the Jikes RVM boot image. Those who want to use only free software tools can now build and work with Jikes RVM.
That code is now in the CVS head. You can read about how to use it by starting at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/jikesrvm/userguide/HTML/Bootstrapping_with_Kaffe.html I am very interested in feedback from the community on this, as well as bug fixes and patches. Please CC me directly on any comments you send to the Jikes RVM mailing lists for the next couple of days, as oss.software.ibm.com is still recovering from hardware trouble. I want to thank Dalibor Topic for his quick responses to my questions about Kaffe, and Grzegorz Prokopski and Mark Wielaard for their moral support, encouragement, and perspective. --Steve Augart _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
