Is GCJ still active?

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Andrew Haley <aph <at> redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 02/05/2012 06:33 PM, 孙波翔 wrote:
>
> > I am doing a project(open source) and need to complie some java
> > *.class files to *.dll and *.so files so that this files can run
> > without jre.
> >
> > I found there only have to tools can do it: Jet and GCJ.
> >
> > Jet is not under GPL license. And the latest release of GCJ was on Sep
> > 22, 2009. I need to compile the java files and support JDK 1.7
> > features. So does GCJ still active and may support JDK 1.7 in future?
>
> gcj ahas been released several times since then.  There is a little
> development still going on, but at present there are no plans to do
> a release that supports Java 1.7 features.
>
> Andrew.

So naturally, the next question then would be:

Will there be any capabilities to compile java applications to native
binaries using the OpenJDK? If not, who should we contact to convey
the ever so popular and growing interest in being able to do this for
Linux, OS X and Windows?
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Harpal Grover
President
Harpal Grover Consulting Inc