JRockit-powered Harmony

Excellent news! BEA have made available a binary version of the JRockit VM for use with the Apache Harmony class libraries. See their post on harmony-dev.

As Geir notes, Harmony now has two decent VMs to choose from. Anyone planning to hack Hotspot to run with Harmony?

IBM Java 6 /.'d

A post on Slashdot about the early release of IBM's Java 6 is generating some interesting discussion. But, from the wording, I don't think IndioMan has ever worn a blue suit. ;-)