Graal/Truffle Release 0.2

[Bernhard Urban]

Hi all,

in order to make the life easier for external Truffle implementations, we
introduced a release model for Graal and Truffle some weeks ago.  The idea
is to release a truffle.jar which is in sync with a Graal enabled VM in
terms of API.  Yesterday we made version 0.2:
http://lafo.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/builds/

JRuby for example is one such external user: They specify the Truffle API
as dependency in Maven [1, 2].  In order to get high performance you also
need to run it with a Graal enabled JVM [3].

Although those images are primarily intended for Truffle development, one
can also use them to run normal Java applications with Graal.  However,
keep in mind that Graal is still experimental, i.e. don't use it for
production mode.

Have fun,
Bernhard

[1] https://github.com/jruby/jruby/blob/master/pom.xml#L30
[2] https://github.com/jruby/jruby/blob/master/core/pom.xml#L204
[3] https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Truffle#running-with-graal