The Jikes Research Virtual Machine project: Building an open-source research community

& B. Alpern S. Augart S. M. Blackburn M. Butrico A. Cocchi P. Cheng J. Dolby S. Fink D. Grove M. Hind K. S. McKinley M. Mergen J. E. B. Moss T. Ngo V. Sarkar M. Trapp This paper describes the evolution of the Jikese Research Virtual Machine project from an IBM internal research project, called Jalapeño, into an open-source project. After summarizing the original goals of the project, we discuss the motivation for releasing it as an open-source project and the activities performed to ensure the success of the project. Throughout, we highlight the unique challenges of developing and maintaining an open-source project designed specifically to support a research community.