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:IBM PR by daveho · 2003-09-17 07:23 · Score: 3, Insightful

It's just yet another IBM PR fluff piece.
I disagree. IBM has put a huge amount of time and resources into free software that lots of people use: Eclipse, Linux, etc. The effort to get Eclipse to work on Jikes RVM gives users a world-class Java IDE which is entirely based on open source software. One of the most interesting things about Eclipse on Jikes RVM is that it does not require any changes to Eclipse; the porting effort consistent entirely of fixing bugs and implementing missing functionality in Jikes RVM and its libraries.

Disclaimer: As an intern at IBM, I was one of the people involved in the effort to get Eclipse to run on Jikes RVM. I don't work for them at the moment.