Dockerfile for Building and Testing Openj9

At Eclipse OpenJ9, we have the challenge of wanting to build and test many versions of SDKs on many platforms. At the same time, we are constrained by the complexity of the machine configuration and setup, and by the number of machines that we have access to and are able to add to our continuous…

Enhancing Github Pull Request Checks in OpenJ9 Projects

When people push commits to GitHub, they should take responsibility for their changes in the form of a commit sign-off. This sign-off asserts that the developer has authored the change and has the legal right to contribute it. This sign-off is required by any OpenJ9 project repository including the Extensions repos. Eclipse already provides this…

A Project Valhalla Internship Experience

At the time of writing, I am a second year computer science undergraduate student at the University of Waterloo. The winter of 2018, I interned at IBM Runtime Technologies, working on the recently open-sourced Eclipse OpenJ9 Java Virtual Machine. It’s a bit early in my academic career to say, but at school, my favourite topics…

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