abc is a joint project between the Programming Tools Group at Oxford
University, UK and the Sable Research Group at McGill University,
Quebec.

abc is built on a number of existing efforts:
 - AspectJ language design <http://www.aspectj.org>
 - ajc runtime library and testing harness <http://www.aspectj.org>
 - JastAdd, an exttensible compiler construction framework
   <http://jastadd.org>
 - Polyglot, an extensible compiler framework for Java 
   <http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Projects/polyglot/>
 - Soot, a Java optimisation framework <http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/soot/>
 - Jedd, a Java extension for Decision Diagrams 
   <http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/jedd/>
 - Paddle, a BDD-based analysis toolkit for Java
   <http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/paddle>
 - JavaBDD, a BDD package for Java
   <http://javabdd.sourceforge.net/>

In alphabetical order of surname, the following people have contributed
directly to abc:

Chris Allan <christopher.allan at somerville.oxford.ac.uk>
 - Original tracematches design

Pavel Avgustinov <pavel.avgustinov at magdalen.oxford.ac.uk>
 - Designed and implemented the abc test harness
 - Implemented privileged aspects along with a generic accessor 
   method infrastructure
 - Re-wrote the lexer to make an LGPL'd version
 - Improved Soot's handling of large methods
 - Co-implemented tracematches in abc
 - Co-implemented JastAdd frontend for abc (abc-ja)

Aske Simon Christensen <aske at brics.dk>
 - Designed the overall compiler structure, and the connection
   between the frontend and backend
 - Designed and implemented the pattern matcher
 - Implemented declare parents and declare precedence

Torbjorn Ekman <torbjorn.ekman at comlab.ox.ac.uk>
 - Co-implemented JastAdd frontend for abc (abc-ja)

Christopher Goard <cgoard at cs.mcgill.ca>
 - prototype implementation of cflow counters in ajc

Laurie Hendren <hendren at sable.mcgill.ca>
 - Project leader (McGill)
 - Grammar, Scanner and Parser
 - Initial weaver

John Jorgensen <jorgnsn at lcd.uregina.ca>
 - Soot support

Sascha Kuzins <sascha.kuzins at comlab.ox.ac.uk>
 - Designed and implemented the around weaver

Jennifer Lhotak <jlhotak at sable.mcgill.ca>
 - Java to Jimple
 - initial weaver

Ondrej Lhotak <olhotak at sable.mcgill.ca>
 - initial weaver
 - Work on Soot class and method handling
 - interprocedural cflow analyses	

Oege de Moor <oege at comlab.ox.ac.uk>
 - Project leader
 - Implemented frontend
 - Designed and implemented intertype weaver
 - Designed and implemented large parts of the tracematch analyses

Neil Ongkingco
 - Designed and implemented open modules for AspectJ.

Jane Panangaden
 - Poinsettiacus logo design
 - General consultant

Damien Sereni <dsereni at comlab.ox.ac.uk>
 - Simple cflow optimisations (counters, instance sharing)

Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh at earth.li>
 - Designed and implemented pointcut matcher
 - Implemented large portions of the weaver
 - Various minor frontend fixes
 - Some small backend optimisations
 - Work on Soot class handling

Julian Tibble <julian.tibble at worcester.oxford.ac.uk>
 - EAJ language
 - Co-implemented tracematches in abc
 - Co-implemented JastAdd frontend for abc (abc-ja)