Eclipse Now Runs On Jikes Research Virtual Machine

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 16, 2003 @11:01AM from the joiks dept.

jscribner writes "IBM reached another key milestone in open source: Eclipse, a completely open source platform, now runs on the Jikes Research Virtual Machine (RVM) improving its teaching/research potential because it provides the community with a significant open source Java benchmark that runs on top of a flexible open testbed (Jikes RVM). The testbed runs on Linux and uses the GNU Classpath implementation of Java libraries (read: complete open source solution). Although Jikes RVM was developed by IBM researchers at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, it was donated to the community in October 2001 and now has a steering committee and core team that include both IBMers and other university researchers."

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Re:well, this is interesting by Amomynos+Coward · 2003-09-16 23:09 · Score: 3, Funny

> Now if they can just get x86 binaries to run on my P4, we'll be set!

Hmm, you must be using Windows:

Move the mousepointer to the lower left corner and click the button saying Start. From the opening menu select "Run...", type the name of a program to the appearing window and press Ok. Here is a complete list of the executables you can run:

winmine.exe
sol.exe
pinball.exe
freecell.exe