Mark Reinhold recently pointed out that he, Joe Darcy and Brian Goetz had submitted their OpenJDK work on features for JDK7 and JDK8 to the JCP for standardization. Normally I am somewhat sceptical about the JCP. I don’t believe the JCP fosters a truly open process and discourages Free Software implementations. But Mark, Joe and Brian seem to be proving me wrong.
LIU Qi from Longsoon wrote up some OpenJDK MIPS port related information on the IcedTea wiki: http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/MIPSPort. Go check it out if you own some MIPS hardware and want to help out.
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