Building the OpenJDK Hotspot Repository in Haiku

Andrew Bachmann, the developer who leads the project to port SUN's OpenJDK to Haiku, has been busy lately making progress with his effort to bring Java to the Haiku platform. Known for having worked on the port of Java to BeOS (which you can see in action here), Andrew recently has posted on the Haiku Blog-O-Sphere step-by-step instructions on how to build the OpenJDK "hotspot" repository in Haiku. The result of this build process is a partial JRE (Java Runtime Environment) which includes the libjvm.so libraries.

It is good to see Andrew active and reporting tangible results from his porting efforts. Andrew is working on this project single-handedly at this time, so needless to say collaborators are welcome. Developers interested in helping out with the port can do so by joining and introducing themselves on the OpenJKD haiku-port-dev mailing list. Commits to the Haiku OpenJDK repository can also be followed through the same above mailing list. Edit: Andrew also wrote on the mailing list that he is now working on getting the JDK make files in order, and adding in the Haiku AWT and other support classes.