Acknowledgments
Jikes RVM was independently developed as part of the Jalapeño research project at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. The following IBM Research employees, academic visitors, and student co-ops contributed to the initial and/or subsequent releases of Jikes RVM.
| Bowen Alpern | Anthony Cocchi | Han Lee | Janice Shepherd |
| Matthew Arnold | Julian Dolby | Derek Lieber | Manu Sridharan |
| Dick Attanasio | Tracy Ferguson | Mark Mergen | Peter F. Sweeney |
| David Bacon | Stephen Fink | Ton Ngo | Martin Trapp |
| John J. Barton | Eugene Gluzberg | Jeff Palm | Kris Venstermans |
| Steve Blackburn | David Grove | Igor Pechtchanski | John Whaley |
| Rastislav Bodik | Michael Hind | Vivek Sarkar | |
| Maria Butrico | Dave Hovemeyer | Mauricio Serrano | |
| Perry Cheng | Susan Hummel | Arvin Shepherd | |
| Jong-Deok Choi | Sergiy Kyrylkov | Stephen Smith |
The following people have greatly contributed to the success of the Jikes RVM project by having served as core team members.
- Steve Augart
- Julian Dolby, IBM Research
- Stephen Fink
- Matthias Hauswirth, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Chris Hoffmann, University of Massachussetts
- Feng Qian, McGill University
- Peter F. Sweeney, IBM Research
The Jikes RVM project sincerely thanks the following contributors to the system:
| Eddie Aftandilian | Steven Augart | Michael Baer | Greg Borota |
| Shane Brewer | Brian D. Carlstrom | Peter Donald | Philippe Faes |
| Chapman Flack | Daniel Frampton | Robin Garner | Georgios Gousios |
| Andrew Gray | Jungwoo Ha | Matthias Hauswirth | Matthew Hertz |
| Chris Hoffmann | Kenneth Hoste | Xianglong Huang | Richard Jones |
| Garrett Kolpin | Christos-Efthymois Kotselidis | Sergiy Kyrylkov | Alan Lawrence |
| Kien Le | Han Lee | John Leuner | Lukas Loehrer |
| Avery Moon | J. Eliot B. Moss | Elias Naur | Anders Biehl Norgaard |
| Jeff Palm | Filip Pizlo | Tuan Phan | Ian Rogers |
| Aleksey Shipilev | Jeremy Singer | Stephen Smaldone | Sunil Soman |
| Darko Stefanovic | Tom VanDrunen | Ian Warrington | Mark Wielaard |
| Yuval Yarom | Lingli Zhang | Jisheng Zhao |
Jikes RVM uses either the class libraries produced by the GNU Classpath project or Apache Harmony.
Thanks to David R. Hanson,Christoper W. Fraser, and Todd Proebsting for making available the iburg tool, which we've enhanced for use in Jikes RVM.
Contributors to the Jalapeño research project
Thanks to Codehaus and Sourceforge for providing hosting services.