After a long wait since the project was kicked off back in early 2008, the Haiku OpenJDK Port sponsored by the OpenJDK Porters Group finally has an official Mercurial forest. The forest, which has already seen some commits, is expected to become a crucial tool in enabling the collaboration expressed over time by several individuals whose efforts were constrained due to the lack of a source code repository. Commits to the Haiku OpenJDK Port repository can be followed through the haiku-port-dev mailing list or the online change log. On a related note, according to the project's lead developer, Andrew Bachmann, he has translated the MakeDeps tool to C++, so that it is suitable for building OpenJDK on any platform without the need for java.
