Darryl finds the core of the issue, as usual. (What took you so long, my friend? :)

I think this is one of the downsides of Sun's "Feudal" open-source model. All project models have strengths and weaknesses - I think that Sun's strengths are that they have many really smart people who really mean well, and they are also willing to just pump cash into something a la Microsoft (e.g. Netbeans) - but when the business plan needs projects to be a "walled garden" (e.g. OpenJDK) with statutory control designed or intended, things will get rough at the intercept with the natural ebb and flow of contributors.

Every now and then I wake up to good news. Tim Ellison announced on the Apache Harmony list that the new IBM JDK 6 has been released, and it contains code from Apache Harmony!

I thought you'd be interested to know that IBM has released the "IBM Java SDK version 6" for general availability today [1]. The Java SDK is released across various combinations of Windows, AIX, z/OS, and Linux on IA32, AMD64/EM64T, Power32 & 64, and zSeries 31 & 64 processors. Of particular note is that this version of the IBM Java SDK contains a significant amount of Apache Harmony class library code, as developed by a number of people on this list. So thank you, everyone, for the hard work in implementing, testing and delivering production quality code. Of course, IBM's Java SDK v6 has passed the Java SE JCK compliance test suite, is installed on numerous IBM systems, and forms the basis of literally hundreds of IBM products, many used in mission-critical environments. I think this is a very exciting achievement.