Licensing

Apache License

Janino is distributed under the terms of the New BSD License. I chose this license so that Janino will (hopefully) be useful in both free and proprietary projects. (In the past, JANINO was first licensed under the LGPL, and then under the Apache License.)

Who develops Janino?

As of today, Janino is written and maintained entirely by myself, Arno Unkrig. I do this work without support of any company. I am independent from SUN Microsystems Inc.

How is Janino developed?

Janino was initially developed with JDK 1.2.2 and CVS on Linux. Meanwhile, I switched to Windows Vista and SVN. I test Janino with JDK 1.2.2 and 1.5.

Janino should run on any operating system platform for which a JDK 1.2.2 or higher is available.

Future directions

Janino now is a nearly complete Java^TM compiler. The focus is now on stabilization and adding the few language features that are still missing.

The name

There's no special story behind the name. It begins with a "J", "janino.net" was still available, and it sounds similar to the name of a close relative of mine ;-)

Trademark notice

Java and all Java-based marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Arno Unkrig is independent of Sun Microsystems, Inc.