Today during our JavaOne talk (given by Tim and I) I was proud to demonstrate JEdit running on Harmony!
That's right, with Swing/AWT code. The formal contribution is on it's way, and I don't wish to steal any more thunder from the contribution when it's made, but we (Intel hat on here..) wasn't able to make the donation in time for the talk today because of internal process loose ends, and I wanted to make a splash for us at JavaOne.
I expect it will be here in the next couple of days.
Harmony - The question of compatible open source isn't "whether", but when!
Full thread here.
The Harmony project has had most of its contributions from IBM (update: and Intel obviously - my mistake) - first the VM, then some class libraries ("The new class library code includes security, cryptography, javax.net and unit tests"), and now Swing.
This puts Sun under heavy pressure to FLOSS' their own Java sooner rather than later since they sure don't want the alternatives stealing their show (from their perspective), they have already made the decision after all (but not given any timeframe).
Anyways, FLOSS Java marches on with or without Sun.
This is basically only general talks. The Swing donation is not comitted, so why we should think and react as if it is comitted? Now it is even getting less and less clear who is going to comit it. Intel or IBM? Probably it is too early to raise any discussion on this topic.
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