Java News from Monday, June 2, 2008

The Gnu Classpath Project has released IcedTea 1.7. IcedTea "provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK (http://openjdk.java.net) using Free Software build tools and provides replacements libraries for the binary plugs with code from the GNU Classpath project." Also available are:

• IcePick to enable the OpenJDK language tools (javac, javadoc, javah, javap, apt) to be built separately using any 1.5 compliant Java compiler and be used by any GNU Classpath based runtime
• BrandWeg adds elements of OpenJDK to the existing sources of GNU Classpath.