Finally: SableVM 1.1.7 Java Virtual Machine RELEASED!
Yeah, I know. It's been in preparation since mid-september. Sometimes it's hard to have both: a stable, well-tested release and not give up any of new, important features that are almost there. But I am confident it was worth waiting. We've fixed lots of little-but-important things and a couple of useful features was added. But the changelog should say it all:
- Imported new GNU Classpath CVS snapshot as of Sun Oct 10 18:00:00 UTC 2004.
- Added handling of Jar/Zip files on boot classpath.
- Provided user-friendly failure messages for bootstrap problems. This should get rid of the hated "sablevm: cannot create vm".
- Allowed for multiple elements and prepending/appending to boot class path.
- Added --with-profiling switch to make most functions non-"static".
- Made sablevm-classpath install its files in more standard locations.
- Explicitely disallowed compilation of classpath with gcj or kjc (it never worked reliably).
- Made jikes and gcc be less verbose by default (to avoid confusion).
- Added new Generational Garbage Collector ("experimental", available on request, by passing --with-gc=gencopy to configure).
- Made several important bugfixes and improvements (see the full announcement)
The development however goes on. For starters I've just merged latest GNU Classpath CVS into staging (our development branch). There are some non-critical issues related to latest intensive changes in Classpath, but hopefully they'll be resolved long before 1.1.8 release. And there's of course this little list of open issues to work on in free time :-)
Starting a not-too-serious "Hall of fame"
Looking at the pages from which people come in onto our web pages I saw a nice user comment, which reminded me that Robilad once found something similar. I grepped thru IRC logs for a while and found out the older URL. I've never thought about "Hall of fame" seriously, but here you go. I'll try to have eyes wide open while sailing internet to pick some more of these. Or maybe you saw an interesting coment you could add there? (Note: these are Wiki pages)
In any case, you might just take a quick look at SableVM Java Virtual Machine Hall Of Fame.