[Isolate-interest] JAOO conference talk about Java isolation

[Pete Soper]

Thanks for the exquisite help!

The slides I used are on the interest group page at 
http://bitser.net/isolate-interest .

The room was packed. There was time to cover the resource management 
slide and I finished with two minutes to spare. I mentioned I had copies 
of the papers from the 121 bibliography and then took questions.

   1) Can isolation be used as a tool for testing software?

	I got a bit of clarification and noted that this is a use case the 
expert group hadn't considered and thanked the guy for the idea.

   2) How much VM modification is required by an implementation?

	I said it depends on what you need and explained how some impls will 
involve significant VM changes while others (e.g. Miles Sabin's) require 
none.

   3) What is the plan?

	I explained that there isn't any.

   4) Is there a schedule?

	"Nope."

	A few folks came up afterward and took some of the papers. One person 
inquired about MVM in a desktop context and I gave him a copy of the 
multi-user MVM paper. Somebody else mentioned something I can't recall 
now that led me to offer a copy of the IBM tech report. Eberhard Wolff 
of Saxonia asked questions about resource management and we had a chat 
for a few minutes. Eberhard described a specific use case in which, 
within a cluster environment, messaging and database access need RM 
policies. I  ended up suggesting he consult Mick Jordan and Sreeram 
Duver of Sun and Norbert Kuck of SAP.

-Pete