Re: Further development (was: Re: Maturity of Jama)

[Cleve Moler <moler@mathworks.com>]

On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Ray Conner wrote:

> 
> I'm qouting from a previous message since I wasn't on the list at the
> time:
> 
>  >>
>  >> And ist future: are you going to add new features, correct found
>  >> bugs, or the project is rather dead?
>  >>
>  >> Regads,
>  >> Piotr Serwa
>  >
>  > No further development of JAMA is contemplated at this time.  What
>  > is there is stable.  There are no know bugs.  If you find what you
>  > need, then please use it.  But it is not a complete math library and
>  > there are no plans to make it one.
>  >
>  >  -- Cleve Moler
>  >  moler@mathworks.com
> 
> 
> Was development stopped because there is another, widely accepted,
> Java linear algebra package available?  Or, is there at least one in
> development?
> 
> The reason I ask is that I think that the high-level design could have
> been better.  I'm not talking about any of the code that actually
> performs calculations, but the general Matrix class itself.  I'm
> looking at this from a Java OO design perspective, rather than from
> that of a numerical analyst (something about which I know relatively
> little).
> 
> So, if there is other development going on in this area that is likely
> to become a standard, I would like to have some input into it.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the work you put into JAMA,
> Ray A. Conner
> 
> 
> 

Hi--  See

    http://math.nist.gov/javanumerics

especially the link to "Jampack".

  -- Cleve