Thank you for your interest:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/sources/DemeterJava/available/status.txt

Answers some of your questions.

We focus all our efforts on Demeter/Java which is estimated to
run on Windows 95 by March 31.

Yes, Demeter/Java has a very small library on its own which is needed
at run-time. Currently it contains only two classes:

Ident.java (11 lines)
Text.java  (11 lines)

The reasons why the Demeter/Java run-time system is so light, are:

1. Java is a much better match for Demeter than C++. We can reuse classes
   provided by the Java libraries.

2. The generic functions, like parsing and printing etc. are now
   generated, instead of being generic. For the parser generation
   we use SUN's Jack parser generator for Java.

A commercial tool incorporating some of the ideas of Demeter
and Adaptive Programming is developed by a commercial organization.
They are in intensive development and not yet ready to ship the product.
When the product is available, it will be announced at:
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/


-- Karl Lieberherr

From rcuellar@earth.hekimian.com Mon Dec  2 08:06:58 1996
From: rcuellar@earth.hekimian.com (Roland Cuellar)
Message-Id: <9612021306.AA43370@earth.hekimian.com>
To: demeter@ccs.neu.edu
Subject: newbie
Reply-To: Roland Cuellar <rolandc@pobox.com>

Hi,

I picked up the Demeter textbook on a whim and immediately found
it fascinating.  I am very anxious to try out this methodolgy on some 
real problems.   I see from your web pages that the system is
currently available for AIX and Linux with a future port to Windows,
etc. 

Questions:

1) Do you have a plan as for when there might be a Windows version?

2) Does one need the Demeter system both at code-generation AND
		at run-time?  Or is it needed only during code-gen?  Can one
		perform code-gen on AIX or Linux and then take the code over
		to another platform and recompile?  Or are there libraries
		that need to be linked in that are not generally available for
		all platforms?

3) What is the status of the Demeter Java project?

thanks a lot and keep up the good work!
roland cuellar
rolandc@pobox.com

From rcuellar@earth.hekimian.com Mon Dec  2 08:28:21 1996
To: demeter@acm.org
Subject: commercial demeter
Reply-To: Roland Cuellar <rolandc@pobox.com>

Hi,

I picked up the Demeter textbook on a whim recently and found it quite
fascinating.  Is there any commercial support for the demeter tools?

thanks,
roland cuellar
rolandc@pobox.com