I’ve had a few people ask about what’s going on since I got in contact with Ian Murdock.
Short Answer: We’re playing the waiting game. Sun is a big company and it will take them some time to respond.
Long Answer: I basically wrote up details of what happened last time we made good progress on a [...]

I’ve followed up with Ian on our conversation at IndyJUG with an e-mail describing why I (we?) don’t know where to start with OpenJDK and attempting a platform port.
The basic boiled-down version of the message is:
Last time we quit hearing from Sun.
This time, the OpenJDK project isn’t really set up to facilitate platform ports. It’s [...]

I met Ian Murdock tonight, and now he knows about Haiku. He also knows of the java 1.4 port to BeOS R5 that was stalled for the following two reasons:

Sun quit responding to us
R5’s protect_memory sucks.

Either one of those by themselves could have probably been overcome, but in conjunction, and with Haiku firmly in development [...]

Well, I’m packing. I’ll be waiting to pack the BeOS computer (desktop) on thursday night. I’m hoping that I’ll have some time that night to sit down and hack out some things on the Java port that I’d love to have done for waltercon. Unfortunately, I don’t forsee that happening.
The most likely thing that will [...]