======================= HISTORY OF THE SOFTWARE ======================= JPython was created in late 1997 by Jim Hugunin. Jim was also the primary developer while he was at CNRI. In February 1999 Barry Warsaw took over as primary developer and released JPython version 1.1. In October 2000 Barry helped move the software to SourceForge where it was renamed to Jython. Barry then made Finn Bock the primary maintainer.