The project will initially be driven by IBM and SAP, said Volker. Plans for the project would include: provision of an interpreter-only version of the HotSpot virtual machine; tools and class libraries for AIX and Linux on 32- and 64-bit PowerPC; certifiable JDK 7 on Linux and AIX for PowerPC; an implementation of the C2 server compiler on Linux and AIX on PowerPC; integration of new ports into the main JDK8 and 9 branches.

Oracle declined to comment on the PowerPC-OpenJDK proposal. in an effort to work with developers from Oracle, IBM, Apple, Red Hat, and others on Java innovations as part of the standard open source JDK.

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