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Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 17:26:58 +0100
From: Oliver Deakin <oliver.deakin@googlemail.com>
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Subject: New IBM VME
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Hi all,

I'm pleased to announce that a new IBM VME will be made available soon at:
   http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/harmony/index.html

The new VME downloads are named Harmony-vme-win.IA32-v2.zip and 
Harmony-vme-linux.IA32-v2.tar.gz. I would like to stress that if you 
download these packages now, they will *not* work with the class library 
code currently in Harmony Subversion. This VME has been created looking 
forward to changes that have been discussed on the list, but have not 
yet been carried out. They are:
 - completion of renaming of com.ibm packages, especially in LUNI 
module. The new VME expects only org.apache.harmony package names.
 - removal of String from the kernel, and addition of an intern(String) 
method to the org.apache.harmony.kernel.vm.VM class. The new VME does 
*not* contain String in its kernel jars. It does, however, provide an 
intern(String) method in the VM class, as was suggested in [1]. The 
String.intern() method in Harmony will just redirect the call to 
VM.intern(String).

Once these changes are made in the Harmony repository, the new version 
of the VME will be required to run with Harmony classlib. I will send 
out a further mail when this is done confirming that the new VME is 
available and ready to use.

A link to the VME v1 will still be available in the same place, and this 
should still be used until the above changes are made.

Regards,
Oliver


[1] 
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-harmony-dev/200602.mbox/%3c43FB44A0.2040805@googlemail.com%3e

-- 
Oliver Deakin
IBM United Kingdom Limited


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