Today BEA made available the JRockit virtual machine for use for evaluation with the Apache Harmony class library. This is really great news - this is a world-class, production grade Java virtual machine, and having it to help test the class library is a great help for the project. It allows us to isolate bugs as being specific to the classlibrary because the VM is tested and "known good".

So now, the Harmony project has two production VMs to choose from, BEA's JRockit and IBM's J9, to use for testing in the project (as well as our own up-and-coming VM, DRLVM).

You can find JRockit here : http://dev2dev.bea.com/jrockit/jrockitVM

BEA has setup a forum : http://forums.bea.com

And of course, there's also the Harmony dev list for discussion on the Harmony-related aspects.

In the interest of clarity - this isn't JRockit going open source. It's a binary, evaluation-only license (and really, really useful to us).

Thanks BEA!

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