CFV: New Project: Detroit

[Sundararajan Athijegannathan]

Vote: Yes

-Sundar

On 31/01/18, 10:08 PM, Jim Laskey wrote:
> I hereby propose the creation of the Detroit Project with Hannes
> Wallnöfer as the Lead and the Compiler Group as the sponsoring Group.
>
> In accordance with the OpenJDK guidelines [1], this project will provide
> the home for the development of a native implementation of the
> javax.script package based on the Chrome V8 JavaScript engine [2]. Our
> starting point is the prototype presented by James Laskey at JVMLS 2017 [3].
>
> The resulting implementation will contain V8 itself together with the
> necessary Java and JavaScript bindings.  When loaded by a JVM process it
> provides a new javax.script.ScriptEngine [4] called "V8" that allows
> loading and execution of JavaScript code via V8.
>
> We also want to support a significant subset of the JavaScript
> extensions implemented in Nashorn [5], including accessing,
> instantiating, and extending or implementing Java types from JavaScript.
>
> The initially targeted platforms are Linux and Mac OS X. V8 sources are
> acquired by build processes. We do not plan to modify the V8 sources in
> any way.  Thus, maintenance and updating to new upstream releases will
> be straightforward.
>
> While the initial implementation will be based on JNI, the project could
> act as a platform for new technologies developed in Project Panama [6]
> in the future.
>
> The initial list of reviewers and committers will be based on the
> current reviewers and committers of the Nashorn team:
>
> James Laskey (reviewer)
> Sundararajan Athijegannathan (reviewer)
> Hannes Wallnöfer (reviewer)
> Srinivas Dama (committer)
> Priya Lakshmi Muthuswamy (committer)
>
> Votes are due by the end of Wednesday, February 7, 2018.
>
> Only current OpenJDK Members [7] are eligible to vote on this
> motion.  Votes must be cast in the open on the discuss list.
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>
> For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [8].
>
> Jim Laskey
>
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project
> [2] https://developers.google.com/v8/
> [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JLhwsbMvjQ
> [4] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/javax/script/package-summary.html
> [5] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Nashorn/Nashorn+extensions
> [6] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/panama/
> [7] http://openjdk.java.net/census#members
> [8] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project-vote