JRockit VM works with Harmony class library!

 Yesterday, BEA announced JRockit VM for evaluation with Harmony class library on Windows/IA32. Below is the BEA's announcement on Harmony mailing list:

From: Tuva Palm  [ mailto:tpalm@bea.com ]
Sent: den  30  januari  2007   10 : 39
To: 'dev@harmony.apache.org'
Subject: JRockit H27 .2.1  for Harmony Class Library released now

We have followed the Apache Harmony project since its inception ,  and
are impressed by the rapid progress the project has made.  We are now
making a version of JRockit adapted to work with Harmony available to
the community to help the Harmony project progress towards being a
full Java implementation ,  and to help us understand the issues
involved in making our JVM more generic.

JROCKIT H27 .2.1  FOR HARMONY CLASS LIBRARY RELEASED NOW

The JRockit H27 .2.1  release is a  32 -bit partial implementation of the
Java Standard Edition Version  5  Specification for Windows on Intel
architecture that works with Harmony Class Library. This software is
not a part of the Apache Harmony project ,  and is being licensed to
you for evaluation purposes only. If you have any questions regarding
JRockit or this release please visit our forums.

Download the JRockit H27 .2.1  at

    http://dev2dev.bea.com/jrockit/jrockitVM

Visit the BEA JRockit forums

     http://forums.bea.com (jrockit.developer.interest
.general)

for discussions regarding JRockit.

Regards ,

Tuva

Tuva Palm ,  MSc
Program Manager
tuva.palm@bea.com
BEA Systems
Java Runtime Products Group

Really awesome, BEA, this will be very helpful to Harmony developers!

Some background:

Modularization is one key objective of Harmony project, and it is key enablement to community innovation on Java SE technology. Harmony class library is separated to 20+ modules, and JVM/Classlib is also decoupled by a well designed VMI(Virtual Machine Interface), JVM implementation is "compatible" with Harmony(i.e., can work with Harmony class library) as long as it  implements this VMI, which includes several native APIs as well as 23 Java classes, besides standard JNI and JVMTI. Harmony is also trying to provide a Classpath adapter to work with GNU Classpath compatible JVM.

Currently there are several JVMs supporting Harmony VMI. JRockit is the second production VM, after IBM J9 VM,  the light weighted SableVM and Harmony's  own DRLVM are open source alternatives.