[Isolate-interest] Re: JSR 121 TCK available

[Guillaume Desnoix]

Hello, 

(just joined the ML now, even if I have read the archive for a while) 

>a draft of the JSR 121 TCK tests is available on java.net
>in the jsr121tck project, located in the JDK family of projects.

Good news. That will let us understand the real meaning of the API.
And test our implementation. 

> Please send any comments or suggestions directly to me.
> To access the jsr121tck project tests you need to get 'JDK researcher'
> role.

Not what I call an open process. 

> At this point we are posting the tests only. Instructions on how to
> run them will be provided later on, when we release a new version of
> the Multi-Tasking Virtual Machine (MVM) that can execute them.

It sounds as if the tests are tied to the MVM. Strange. Shouldn't the test 
of an API be independant of a particular implementation? 

Regards, Guillaume