Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 7th Jun 2007 22:40 UTC, submitted by Mark Wielaard
Red Hat just made it possible to bootstrap OpenJDK using only Free Software by building on top of gcj and replacing the binary blobs with code from GNU Classpath. The result is called IcedTea. IKVM also made a GNU Classpath/OpenJDK hybrid making it possible to run parts of the OpenJDK class libraries on mono and .net. And finally the Cacao team released a
new version of Cacao that can use either GNU Classpath for a full J2SE implementation or that uses the Sun GPL J2ME libraries, including jits for lots of different architectures (alpha, arm, mips, ppc, ppc64, x86 and x86_64).
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If you read the link, they said that they were going to contribute it to OpenJDK, but they wanted to go ahead and get started instead of waiting for their repositories to be setup. They also said that the code is pretty experimental and wouldn't be ready to check in to the official project anyway.
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well, although this seems like a good thing first, i think it would be better if they wait a little more until Open JDK project settles and contribute there. Open JDK also will be in mercurial repositories, and they were already asking people to cooporate for missing open source parts after all. i hope RedHat's intention is not stealing the thunder of Sun by grabbing the %90 of Open JDK code and trying to seem the "actual" developers of it by plugging some classpath code into it. it is a fact hat still most of new JDK7 code is written by the Sun engineers.