A Key Challenge for Oracle: Merging JRockit JVM with HotSpot JVM

Filed in archive Programming on February 20, 2010

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Oracle's plan to integrate its Java technology with Sun's may face some logistical hurdles.

"The plan on how to merge Oracle's JRockit Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and Sun's HotSpot JVM is 'still evolving,' Oracle principal engineer Mark Reinhold has said," writes The Register's Gavin Clarke. "Leads from two JVM's engineering teams are 'spending lots of quality time together,' Reinhold told an Oracle Technology Network webcast audience, but he admitted 'it's not an easy problem taking the best of each [JVM] and figuring out the long-term convergence.'"

"Oracle already announced its plans to merge the two JVMs in its statement regarding the future of Sun's products after the take-over of Java's creator by Oracle had been approved by the European Commission," according to The H Open Source. "Oracle acquired JRockit by taking over BEA Systems in 2008, while Sun's portfolio included the HotSpot JVM as a key component of the Java Standard Edition (Java SE)."

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