Yesterday, BEA announced JRockit VM for evaluation with Harmony class library on Windows/IA32. Below is the BEA's announcement on Harmony mailing list:
From:TuvaPalm
[
mailto:[email protected]
]
Sent:den
30
januari
2007
10
:
39
To:'[email protected]'
Subject:JRockitH27
.2.1
forHarmonyClassLibraryreleasednow
WehavefollowedtheApacheHarmonyprojectsinceitsinception
,
and
areimpressedbytherapidprogresstheprojecthasmade.Wearenow
makingaversionofJRockitadaptedtoworkwithHarmonyavailableto
thecommunitytohelptheHarmonyprojectprogresstowardsbeinga
fullJavaimplementation
,
andtohelpusunderstandtheissues
involvedinmakingourJVMmoregeneric.
JROCKITH27
.2.1
FORHARMONYCLASSLIBRARYRELEASEDNOW
TheJRockitH27
.2.1
releaseisa
32
-bitpartialimplementationofthe
JavaStandardEditionVersion
5
SpecificationforWindowsonIntel
architecturethatworkswithHarmonyClassLibrary.Thissoftwareis
notapartoftheApacheHarmonyproject
,
andisbeinglicensedto
youforevaluationpurposesonly.Ifyouhaveanyquestionsregarding
JRockitorthisreleasepleasevisitourforums.
DownloadtheJRockitH27
.2.1
at
http://dev2dev.bea.com/jrockit/jrockitVM
VisittheBEAJRockitforums
http://forums.bea.com(jrockit.developer.interest
.general)
fordiscussionsregardingJRockit.
Regards
,
Tuva
TuvaPalm
,
MSc
ProgramManager
[email protected]
BEASystems
JavaRuntimeProductsGroup
Really awesome, BEA, this will be very helpful to Harmony developers!
Some background:
Modularization is one key objective of Harmony project, and it is key enablement tocommunity innovation on Java SE technology. Harmony class library is separated to 20+ modules, and JVM/Classlib is also decoupled by a well designed VMI(Virtual Machine Interface), JVM implementation is "compatible" with Harmony(i.e., can work with Harmony class library) as long as it implements this VMI, which includes several native APIs as well as 23 Java classes, besides standard JNI and JVMTI. Harmony is also trying to provide a Classpath adapter to work with GNU Classpath compatible JVM.
Currently there are several JVMs supporting Harmony VMI. JRockit is the second production VM, after
IBM J9 VM, the light weighted
SableVM and Harmony's own
DRLVM are open source alternatives.