Mark Wielaard

Also see Planet Classpath for some of the people I work with.

• GNU Classpath (Essential Libraries for Java) - A project to create free core class libraries for use with virtual machines and compilers for the Java language. It includes all native methods and core classes necessary for a completely functional Java runtime. I am currently (since June 2003) the GNU maintainer of the project.
• The Hunting of the Snark project - An experiment with the BitTorrent protocol, the GNU Compiler for Java (gcj) and the java-gnome bindings.
• GNU Compiler for Java (gcj) - Part of the GNU Compiler Collection (gcc). A portable, optimizing, ahead-of-time compiler for the Java Programming Language. GCJ can also dynamically load and interpret class files, resulting in mixed compiled/interpreted applications.
• Getting Eclipse working with GCJ/GIJ (a kind of universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular) - Things have improved a lot since this report. Check out native eclipse, which is eclipse build with gcj.
• And a Free VM speed comparison (July 2003) and Mauve unicode testcase performance (April 2004) - Micro benchmarks comparing some free execution environments for programs written in the java programming language.