History

• GNU Classpath was started in 1998 (5 developers)

• Initially designed around Japhar, but planned to be used with multiple runtimes

• Merge with libgcj (2000) (20 active developers)

• More and more runtimes based on GNU Classpath Mainly research, but some production runtimes

• Kaffe starts seriously adopting GNU Classpath (2003), even more active developers and multiple active branches.