From:
http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=292
"We will also investigate support for hotswapping, the capability to modify the
structure of classes at run time."
So, yes, they planned to "investigate" a version of become:
The DaVinci Machine
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/
has an implementation:
http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/images/4/41/DaVinciMachineTalk.pdf
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