Jikes RVM

Web Page: http://jikesrvm.org/Google+Summer+of+Code+2012

Mailing List: http://jikesrvm.org/Mailing+Lists

Jikes RVM (Research Virtual Machine) is a flexible open testbed to prototype virtual machine technologies and experiment with a large variety of design alternatives. It differs from other Java virtual machine projects in that it is written in Java whilst having a full adaptive optimization framework. It is a vehicle for testing a wide range of ideas including compiler research, memory management research, Java runtime systems, computer architecture, and aspect oriented programming to name a few. It is widely used for research and teaching; for example, over 200 research papers have been published which use Jikes RVM.

Projects

• Unit tests for the Jikes RVM This project is intended to perform Unit tests on Jikes RVM. It won't be an easy task since we're dealing with a large and complex amount of Java code, some of it will probably refactored for better testing and if there are bugs, they will be fixed.