Guess what? The project is now (mostly) dead and that’s not good
news.In a vote, Apache Harmony developers decided to move Harmony to
the Attic, essentially shelving the project that once held the
prospect of being the leading light in the open source Java
world.Back in 2005, Apache’s Harmony effort was seen as being
essential for open source development. Things have changed since
then, Sun open sourced Java, Oracle acquired Sun. And oh yeah, both
Red Hat and IBM now back the OpenJDK open source implementation of
Java.
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