Jonathan Gibbons

Wednesday Oct 04, 2006

Hello World

Hello, World!

Who am I? Well, ain't that always the Big Question. In this context, I'm an engineer at Sun Microsystems, currently working on the Java™ programing language compiler (javac), along with others of the language tools team, such as Peter, Wei, Joe and Scott. On the compiler, I am particularly interested in tool infrastructure and integration. And, if you hadn't already guessed, I am the "Jon" that Peter sometimes refers to on his blog.

As a side project, I also work on the JDK™ regression test harness (jtreg), which is based on a test harness called JavaTest™, which I designed and built -- along with the rest of the JavaTest team, with particular note to Brian, Larry and Cliff -- in my previous job here at Sun.

These days, a lot of cycles are going into making stuff available as Open Source. Who wudda thunk it? At least it keeps life interesting. ---- And, in case you're wondering, I'm not the only Jonathan Gibbons in the J... community. So if you think I might be the other one, no, I'm not.

Comments:

Hi,

Hello back!

Well, javac and tests! I can't tell you how much of my life is spent building and running test cases in a variety of languages.

We want juicy gossip when Peter et al aren't looking, OK? B^)

Rgds

Damon

Posted by Damon Hart-Davis on October 05, 2006 at 02:41 AM PDT #

Hi Jon,

It's nice to see that you started blogging! It's always been very interesting talking to you in your older days in JavaTest team and I hope this blog will be great too. :)

--Vladimir

Posted by VVS on October 05, 2006 at 03:59 AM PDT #

Thanks for the "hi"s, guys.

Damon, did you hear about the time when he ... ooops, gotta run, sorry...

Posted by Jonathan Gibbons on October 05, 2006 at 02:40 PM PDT #

jonathan.

Posted by 125.22.7.80 on October 26, 2006 at 04:07 AM PDT #

Hi,glad to see your blog. The java compiler was open-sourced and I saw your name in the source code of it. Then I googled your name and found your blog. Hah,I'm very glad!

Posted by Stephen Green on November 14, 2006 at 12:52 AM PST #

Hey! Hi there. I am the real Jonathan Gibbons. This one is an imposter :) Jonathan

Posted by Jonathan Gibbons on January 30, 2007 at 03:57 AM PST #

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