John J. Barton

Java Virtual Machines and C++ Compilers,

IBM T. J. Watson, 1992-1998

I got my picture taken with an IBM computer monitor at Watson: Today's special: computer monitors...

Java Virtual Machines

I was the manager of IBM Watson's Java Tools group, the home of Jikes Compiler, Jikes Debugger, Skij, and JAX tools. I built a bootstrap linker for the Jalapeno Virtual Machine project at IBM Watson (paper in preparation).

Debugging by Remote Reflection by Ton Ngo and John Barton. In, European Conference on Parallel Computing

From the abstract: We have implemented remote reflection as an extension to an interpreter to create a very effective debugger for Jalapeno, a Java Virtual Machine written in Java.

I also helped John Whaley with: A Real-time Performance Visualizer for Java, John Whaley and John Barton, Dr. Dobb's Journal, 1998.

C++

I helped develop the incremental compilation technology in IBM's VisualAge 4.0, a completely incremental C++ development environment See:"Modern Customizable Program Development Environments: An Activities Report" John Barton and Michael Karasick (A poster at OOPSLA '97)

Lee Nackman and I wrote a C++ Book: Scientific and Engineering C++: An Introduction with Advanced Techniques and Examples by John J. Barton and Lee R. Nackman. Addison-Wesley, 1994, ISBN 0-201-53393-6. Lee's website has the source code and more information. Here's a picture of the cover:

The book was cited online often and got good reviews.

We also wrote a column for the C++ Report for some time. A couple of the articles were reprinted in C++ Gems, Programming Pearls from The C++ Report Edited by Stanley B. Lippman Published February 1998 625 pages Paperback | ISBN: 0135705819