From Richard.Sands at Sun.COM Mon Mar 17 18:54:23 2008 From: Richard.Sands at Sun.COM (Rich Sands) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:54:23 -0400 Subject: Announcing Finalists for the OpenJDK Community Innovator's Challenge Message-ID: <47DF20CF.8030103@sun.com> OpenJDK Community, We're pleased to announce the finalists for the OpenJDK Community Innovator's Challenge. The judges have been meeting and discussing the 18 proposals received during the first phase of the Challenge, and evaluating these proposals based on their technical merit, and their likely impact on the OpenJDK Community and the adoption of OpenJDK-based implementations in new markets, for new applications and uses. It was not an easy decision, as most of the proposals were thoughtful and demonstrated passion and commitment to this code base and the community. The seven Finalists, in order of receipt of their proposals, are: Closures for Java Neal Gafter Implement XRender pipeline for Java2D Clemens Eisserer Provide date and time library from JSR-310 Stephen Colebourne, Michael Nascimento Santos Portable GUI backends Roman Kennke, Mario Torre Virtual Machine Interface Andrew John Hughes Free Software synthesizer implemention for the OpenJDK project Karl Helgason OpenJDK on Windows Ted Neward The judges, all Sun employees, are Alan Bateman, Alex Buckley, Danny Coward, Joe Darcy, Ray Gans, James Gosling, Onno Kluyt, Jim Melvin, Alex Potochkin, Phil Race, Mark Reinhold, and Rich Sands. We want to thank everyone who has entered their proposal into the Challenge. It is very exciting to see the level of enthusiasm and interest among developers for the OpenJDK code base. The finalists were chosen based on the completeness and relevance of their proposals and the degree to which the judges felt the end results were both achievable and valuable to the community at this time. Proposals that were not selected as finalists are still valuable and interesting but Sun could not select them all! The judges hope that everyone who has participated so far in the Challenge will consider continuing their efforts in the Community, and collaborating with their peers and with Sun to further the goals of the OpenJDK project. One other thing to remember -- there is no guarantee that completed Challenge projects will be integrated into the main OpenJDK code base, or into the Java SE Platform specification (which is governed by the JCP). Being chosen as a Finalist or completing a project for the Challenge might help to demonstrate the feasibility of a particular API or language proposal but it does not say anything about the likelihood of such a project becoming an approved JSR, or about the code being integrated into the main branch of the OpenJDK code base. Both the spec and the code are managed under processes that are separate from the Challenge. The finalists will be notified and project space set up for them if needed in the OpenJDK Community. As required by the Challenge rules, work must be done in the open, and the entire OpenJDK community is welcome to watch and comment as the projects progress. The Innovators Challenge will close on August 4th at which time each project will be reviewed to verify that it met the completion criteria of its proposal. Cash prizes will be awarded shortly afterwards. Thanks again to everyone who has participated. Good luck to all Finalists on your projects! Regards, -- rms -- Rich Sands Phone: +1 781 881 4067 / x81524 Community Marketing Manager Email: richard.sands at sun.com Java SE Marketing SMS: 6172830027 at vtext.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From robilad at kaffe.org Tue Mar 25 08:19:41 2008 From: robilad at kaffe.org (Dalibor Topic) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:19:41 +0100 Subject: New Project Proposal: MIPS port of OpenJDK Message-ID: <47E9180D.4030502@kaffe.org> Dear OpenJDK developers, I hereby propose, on behalf of the MIPS OpenJDK port developers, the creation of a new project to create and maintain a port of OpenJDK to the MIPS CPU architecture. For a description of the proposal, I'd like to refer you to the thread initiated by Jonathan Springer's post proposing the project on the porters-dev mailing list at [1]. cheers, dalibor topic [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/porters-dev/2008-February/000090.html