OJ, formerly named OpenJava, is a

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that parses and analyzes

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. It uses a

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(MOP) to provide services for

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was the lead developer of OpenJava. Its first release was back to 1997, and won the Student Encouragement Prize at the Java Conference Grandprix '97 held in Japan. This isn't to be confused with

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, which is the open source release of the Java compiler runtime and tools. OpenJava was renamed OJ in October 2007 at the request of

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References

External links

OJ Homepage
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