A quick status round-up on the BSD-Port progress:
> Additionally, there's a lot of work that needs to be done simply to bring
> OpenJDK 7 (and 6) to a production-level state on Mac OS X:
> - Implementing proper "dual-mode" support for x86 and x86-64 JVMs
> - Up-to-date openjdk6 release
This work is progressing in MacPorts, largely thanks to external contributions:
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/20956#comment:57
> - Re-sync with JDK7 mainline, fix Mac OS X build errors that have
> emerged.
Greg Lewis pulled in the latest b116 patchset, which brings the BSD-Port inline
with upstream OpenJDK7:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/bsd-port-dev/2010-October/001369.html
As Greg noted this also includes Shark, which opens the door to JIT on PPC
machines. Greg's work has only seen basic testing on FreeBSD -- it'd be great
if Mac users could try this out and report failures, either in building or
using it.
> - Conformance testing with the TCK
> - Real-world usage, testing, and fixing the bugs that are uncovered.
> - Out-of-the-box Mac OS X Integration via
> http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/Java/JavaSnowLeopardUpdate3LeopardUpdate8RN/NewandNoteworthy/NewandNoteworthy.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40010380-CH4-SW1
Angus Hardie has been working on building a OS X integrated VM bundle on
Apple's java-dev mailing list:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Java-dev/2010/Oct/msg00693.html
> - (Possibly) Dtrace support
> - (Possibly) PowerPC and ARM support via zero/shark project
PowerPC JIT is possible now given Greg's update to b116; someone with the
necessary hardware and interest could try to get this running using the
zero-based binaries as a bootstrap VM:
http://hg.bikemonkey.org/archive/openjdk7_darwin/openjdk7-macppc-2009-12-16-b4.tar.bz2
> - AWT/Swing
> - Sound
Mandolane has been discussing providing a donation of their sound code to the
BSD-Port project:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/sound-dev/2010-October/000110.html
It will be great if we can make use of their code to facilitate sound support.
-landonf
