Peter Kriens: Jigsaw is likely to be the 294 RI

[Stephen J. McConnell]

On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 20:13 +0200, Peter Kriens wrote:
> Jigsaw is not unlikely to be the RI, 

I agree - Jigsaw will be the 294 RI.

The 294 project [1] aimes to deliver a specification that would
establish a definition of modularity for the Java language.  Initially
this project was deployed with a close connection to the JSR 277
process. The 277 process [2] was suspended.  The 294 process started (09
May, 2006) with a open policy, publishing intermediate results, however
it has been a while since something of substance has been put up as a
definitive position. 

In October last year, the 277 process went into permanent hibernation.
We are now almost one year after that date.  Almost the anniversary.
While 277 was thrown to the sunset, a new project named Jigsaw was
established. Over the last year Jigsaw has published an initial language
change specifications [3], class file changes [4], VM changes [5], notes
on the compiler architecture [6], an API under the java.lang.module
namespace and an initial implementation [7] (not to mention a slide show
detailing the thought process leading to compile-time mapping of module
source information [8]).

[1] http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=294
[2] http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=277
[3] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/doc/language.html
[4] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/doc/classfile.html
[5] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/doc/vm.html
[6] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/doc/javac.html
[7] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/jigsaw/api/
[8] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/doc/ModulesAndJavac.pdf

Cheer, Steve.


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