2008/9/12 Anders Kristensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I'm new to the Harmony project and was wondering about the relationship > between Harmony and the GNU Classpath project, e.g.: > - How much (if anything) of the Harmony class libraries come from the GNU > Classpath project?
None, Harmony is delivered with Apache License V2 [1], while GNU Classpath is delivered with GPL. These two licenses are incompatible, so they can't adopt each other's code at all. > - Do the two efforts continue in parallel or is one emerging as being more > likely to flourish and attract future development? I don't familiar with GNU Classpath, but I know Harmony gradually becomes mature. Harmony has clear high level roadmap and detailed close goals [2]. Harmony has a active community which comprises of active committers and contributors [3]. > - If they're both active, which one is more complete? You can get the api diff from here[4], though the data may be out-of-data. Harmony has been improved quite a lot during this period. What's more, Harmony has a virtual machine implementation as well which is called DRLVM [5]. And Harmony classlib could be integrated with IBM VM or Jrockit VM. Correct me if I am wrong :) > > Thanks, > Anders > [1] http://harmony.apache.org/license.html [2] http://harmony.apache.org/roadmap.html [3] http://harmony.apache.org/contributors.html [4] http://www.kaffe.org/~stuart/japi/htmlout/ [5] http://harmony.apache.org/subcomponents/drlvm/index.html -- Best Regards Sean, Xiao Xia Qiu China Software Development Lab, IBM
