Fernando did a podcast/talk at this year's Java One on the state of free runtimes, and associated projects. Nice stuff, though listening to demos of GNU Classpath feels weird, because I can 'see' what's being demoed.
Next year, I'll have to try to get a "Smashing The Java Trap: An Illustrated HowTo" talk accepted.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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