credits

                      Soot Credits
                 
                 
      Soot Maintainers: Patrick Lam, Feng Qian, Ondrej Lhotak
    
    
-------------------- Soot Contributors ------------------------
                  (in alphabetical order)
Marc Berndl
    - Soot framework optimization
    - annotation

Phong Co (phong@hasc.com)
    - Jimple scalar optimizations

David Eng (flynn@sable.mcgill.ca)
    - XML output

Etienne Gagnon (gagnon@sable.mcgill.ca)
    - Jimple typing algorithm
      
Laurie Hendren (hendren@sable.mcgill.ca)
    - project advisor

John Jorgensen (jjorge1@sable.mcgill.ca)
    - bug fixes
    - documentation
       
Felix Kwok (wkwok@sable.mcgill.ca)
    - VTA re-implementation
    
Patrick Lam (plam@sable.mcgill.ca)
    - general Soot hacker
    - Grimp
    - Baf implementation
    - Aggregation
    - second implementation of inlining and devirtualization

Jennifer Lhotak (jlhotak@sable.mcgill.ca)
    - Eclipse Plugin
  
Ondrej Lhotak (olhota@sable.mcgill.ca)
    - General bug-fixes, soot hacker
    - Spark
    - call graph re-implementation

Florian Loitsch (florian@loitsch.net)
    - PRE re-implementation

Jerome Miecznikowski (jerome@sable.mcgill.ca)
    - Dava decompiler

Patrice Pominville (patrice@sable.mcgill.ca)
    - Soot infrastructure
    - Baf implementation & optimizations
    - Jimple parser
    - annotation
    
Feng Qian (fqian@sable.mcgill.ca)
    - array bounds check and annotation
    - contributed to documentation writing
    - prepared 1.2.0 release
    - Dot interface, CFGViewer
    - prepared 1.2.2, 1.2.3 release
    
Vijay Sundaresan (vijay@sable.mcgill.ca)
    - first implementation of inlining and devirtualization

Navindra Umanee (navindra@cs.mcgill.ca)
    - Shimple infrastructure
    
Raja Vallee-Rai (rvalleerai@sable.mcgill.ca)
    - general Soot hacker    
    - API freak
    
Clark Verbrugge (clump@cs.mcgill.ca)
    - coffi hacker
    - original Jimple hacker   

-------------------- Funding Acknowledgements ------------------
                    
Funding support provided by:
    - IBM's Centre for Advanced Studies 
      http://cas.ibm.com

    - Le Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l'Aide a la 
      Recherche (Fonds FCAR)
      http://www.fcar.qc.ca

    - Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of 
      Canada (NSERC)
      http://www.nserc.ca

    - Richard H. Tomlinson Fellowship


------------------------- Special Thanks -----------------------

To:

    - Jonathan Meyer for providing the free software community 
      with Jasmin, a Java bytecode assembler. 

    - Our users for their patience and continuing support!