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Tuesday June 14, 2005

MVM Exposed How cool is this? Want to get a glimpse of some really advanced software research? Source code for Sun Labs' Barcelona project (aka MVM) to make Java technology more scalable just got posted to the JDK Community research project on java.net. MVM stands for "Multi-tasking Virtual Machine", and this project aims to let multiple Java technology applications run in one VM, sharing resources, reducing start-up time, shrinking the memory footprint, all without any cross-application interference. Damn cool stuff - should work on VMs from cell-phone size to clusters of big servers.

But what is really cool is that if you're a developer, researcher, professor, or just a student of wizardly software engineering, you can get involved and contribute. This technology has gotten both press attention and plenty of interest from Java developers. Now that it is a full-fledged JDK research project, the community can look under the covers and see how it works, and help steer this technology's development by contributing ideas and code and talking with Sun Labs' researchers directly.

The Participation Age isn't just empty words - its projects like Barcelona on the JDK Community.
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